{"id":63,"date":"2021-01-05T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/can-president-elect-biden-reshape-fannie-and-freddies-course\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T01:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:58:27","slug":"can-president-elect-biden-reshape-fannie-and-freddies-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/can-president-elect-biden-reshape-fannie-and-freddies-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Can President-elect Biden Reshape Fannie and Freddie&#8217;s Course?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #6d6e71;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">After the 2008 Great Recession, the government bailed out Fannie and Freddie to save them from insolvency and placed them in conservatorship. Congress created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to regulate the companies, giving it broad authority to put them in a solvent condition and preserve their assets.<br \/>\nThe FHFA entered the GSEs into an agreement with the Treasury Department, under which their net profits would be swept into the Treasury to repay their debt. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">Since then, the FHFA has reigned in the GSEs\u2019 more risky activities. With Congress unable to enact broad GSE reform legislation, the Trump administration has been working independently to return Fannie and Freddie to the private sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">Biden undoubtedly will want to change this path, although <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">he may face some hurdles depending on events over the next few months.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #d80000;\">The Trump \u201cRecap and Release\u201d Plan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">The Trump administration\u2019s game plan for Fannie and Freddie, often referred to as recap and release, first involved building the GSEs capital to bolster their safety and soundness. Once they were recapitalized, they could exit government conservatorship and compete as private companies with the private-label securitization market. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">Recapitalization meant allowing Fannie and Freddie to retain more of the profits that currently are being swept into the Treasury, as well as sell shares in public offerings. Reducing the size of Fannie and Freddie\u2019s loan portfolios would further reduce their risks in financial downturns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">Leading this effort has been FHFA Director Mark Calabria. Since assuming that post in April 2019, Calabria has begun to recapitalize the two enterprises by working with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to reduce the profit sweeps. Even after it became apparent that Biden would be president, Mnuchin testified before Congress that the Treasury and the FHFA are considering a consent order to release Fannie and Freddie from conservatorship before their full capital levels are reached\u2014probably with some government restrictions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #d80000;\">What to Expect From the Biden Administration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">President-elect Biden is expected to roll back the Trump administration\u2019s recap and release program. Given his campaign pledges to make housing more affordable and address economic inequality, he\u2019s likely to want to use Fannie and Freddie as tools to increase the availability of low-interest mortgages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">Since higher capital requirements would make their mortgage pool smaller, the GSE profits would likely be returned to the government rather than be retained by the companies. In this case, it\u2019s likely that Fannie and Freddie would remain under government control with an expanded affordable-housing mandate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #d80000;\">A Wild Card: The Supreme Court <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">Any plans that Biden has, however, could <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">prove to be more difficult if a consent order is reached between the FHFA and Treasury to release Fannie and Freddie from conservatorship before he takes office\u2014particularly if he can\u2019t fire FHFA Director Mark Calabria before his five-year term expires in 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">In that regard, the U.S. Supreme Court will have its say. On Dec. 9, 2020, it heard oral arguments in the case of <em>Collins v. Mnuchin,<\/em> which will determine whether the FHFA\u2019s structure is unconstitutional because it\u2019s headed by a single director who can be removed by the president only <em>for cause <\/em>(inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: black;\">If the Supreme Court rules that the FHFA\u2019s structure is unconstitutional, Biden would be free to replace Calabria. Most observers expect the court to give him that power since it recently declared the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u2019s (CFPB) similar single-director structure to be unconstitutional\u2014but the FHFA\u2019s powers are not generally considered to be as far-reaching as those of the CFPB, and a declaration of unconstitutionality could impact the future of other independent federal agencies. 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