Saule Omarova has faced a barrage of right-wing attacks in her confirmation battle to become the nation’s top bank regulator. Republicans have focused on the fact that she was born and educated in the former Soviet Union as proof that she might be a secret communist.
In a Senate hearing Thursday, Omarova responded to the xenophobic smears, insisting she is not a communist and pointing out that she could not choose where she was born.
Omarova recounted the story of how her grandmother’s family was sent to Siberia in the 1920s for refusing to join the Communist Party. Omarova, who was…
