Corrie Driebusch
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Trump allies began laying the groundwork for this even before he was elected president last year.
This has been a goal of Trump since his last administration.
What we know is that Trump allies began laying the groundwork for this even before he was elected president last year.
And it would value the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at roughly $500 billion or more.
And the government would try to sell between 5% and 15% of the stock.
Right now, proponents of such a transaction, which would be one of the largest stock offerings in history, the plan would be to potentially reduce the country's deficit and return money to taxpayers.
That is what we are hearing.
Obviously, things are still early on.
A lot of things could change.
There's a lot of moving parts.
Ever since 2008, when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were brought in conservatorship, it feels like there's been chatter about how do we get them out of conservatorship or how do we privatize?
These discussions are happening.
The six large banks, their CEOs have all gone down to D.C., have met with President Trump.
They've also met with the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Treasury, and the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the FHFA.
They've also been meeting with the CEOs and bankers.
So this is a serious attempt to
However, there's no guarantee a deal will come together.
IPOs obviously take time to prepare, and this is really complicated.
Previous attempts to privatize have failed to gain traction a lot because Fannie and Freddie have long benefited from the market expectation that the government would bail them out of trouble.
And that's known as this so-called implicit guarantee.
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