As one veteran industry lobbyist explained with a hint of ire: “You’re telling me that a bunch of lame duck Congressmen who lost an election are going to show up on the Friday before Christmas?”
She brought a certain depth of knowledge to the table for her boss, Ben Carson, a career brain surgeon with little in the way of housing and mortgage experience.
With Mel Watt’s term as FHFA director ending in early January, a new director appointed by President Trump is widely expected to take actions to reduce the GSEs’ footprint…