It's for that same reason that he has not allowed F/F to be the agencies of the Administration's economic plans.

These plans would force F/F to reduce interest rates on outstanding mortgages. As some of those mortgages are in inventory at F/F, the ReFi will result in additional losses. More importantly, the ReFi's will require a waiver of many existing representations, and warranties of existing borrowers. In the end, there would have been a cost to all of this. The plan was for F/F to absorb the costs over time, and therefore kick the can down the road. (Why the President said there would be no cost)




DeMarco has nixed those plans. I'm amazed by this. DeMarco has been beaten up by the likes of Elijal Cummings (the new wanna-be Barney Frank of housing, ....only in America…) 










The President can send powerful forces wherever he likes.







He has very tough guys available to do the really hard jobs when needed. 








But even the President can't bend Ed DeMarco. The reason, I believe, is that Mr. DeMarco has "protection".






A year ago,  the Administration tried to junk DeMarco. It wanted its own guy in charge of the old Agencies. It wanted Ed out of the way so that they could conduct economic policy (quietly) using F/F's $6 trillion of power.


I thought the appointment was a shoo-in at the time. That was not the case. The appointment was squashed by one of the strongest hands in D.C.  - Senator Richard Shelby (R. Al) put his thumbs down.