Separately, the agency has substantially reduced its workforce as part of broader government directives.

The privatization push would continue an effort that the first Trump administration tried to kick off in 2019. When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went into ... s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE ...

Privatization efforts risk spooking investors without assurances that the government would bail out Fannie and Freddie in a crisis like in 2008, experts say. Investors who buy up the loans may ...

The Trump administration is weighing an executive order that could accelerate efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to Bloomberg. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill ...

As GSEs before 2008, certain companies enjoy a hugely valuable but free government guarantee. They were never private ...

His swift reorganization aligns with wider federal efforts to streamline operations ... Glick believes that the privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will now happen even sooner than ...

A series of abrupt policy changes at the Federal Housing Finance Agency threaten to make banks and nonbank mortgage companies ...