Bill Pulte
Role in each timeline
- Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
FHFA director who said the enterprises were working on a 50-year mortgage, later said it was no longer a priority, and described the initial bond purchase.
- The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings
FHFA director who alleged that Cook had claimed two primary residences, prompting the attempted removal.
Bill Pulte across every timeline
Every dated entry that names Bill Pulte, from all 2 timelines, newest first.
20261 entry
- The 50-year mortgage is dropped; the bond buying starts with $3 billion Response
Pulte told reporters the administration had other priorities when asked whether 50-year mortgages were still on the table, two months after proposing them. He said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had begun carrying out Trump's bond-buying order with an initial US$3 billion purchase, and said the two companies had more liquidity than they knew what to do with.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
20252 entries
- Trump floats a 50-year mortgage, and the FHFA says it is working on one Announcement
Trump posted an image on Truth Social pairing Franklin Roosevelt under the words 30-year mortgage with himself under 50-year mortgage. FHFA Director Bill Pulte confirmed on X that the agency was working on the product, calling it a game changer. No detail was published on the White House press page, and a 50-year term would not meet the qualified-mortgage rules written after 2008.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Trump says he is firing Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage-fraud allegations; Cook refuses to go Announcement
In a letter posted on Truth Social the president said he was removing Cook for cause, effective immediately, citing FHFA director Bill Pulte's allegation that she had claimed two primary residences in 2021. No president had ever removed a Fed governor. Cook said no cause existed and she would not resign, hired Abbe Lowell and sued; a district court and the D.C. Circuit let her keep her seat while the case went to the Supreme Court.
on The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings