Under standards established during the last days of the Trump White House, the patch was set to expire for loans with applications of July 1, 2021 and beyond.
Due partly to the pandemic, which had an outsized negative impact on non-agency lending, the jumbo sector saw its share of overall originations drop to just 9.7% in 2020 from 16.7% in 2019.
Republican Sen. Toomey said Democrats’ over-aggressive fiscal policies and the Fed’s downward pressure on interest rates threaten to trigger asset bubbles.