
America’s largest mortgage insurer denies report that its staff will be halved. Here’s what it does
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Federal layoffs may soon come for America’s largest mortgage insurer, a powerful engine of the country’s housing market.
Federal layoffs may soon come for America’s largest mortgage insurer, a powerful engine of the country’s housing market. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to lay off at least 40% of the workers at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). However, a government spokesperson denied plans to lay off such a significant portion of the FHA’s workforce. “Suggestions FHA will cut about half its workforce are not accurate,” a spokesperson from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which oversees the FHA, told CNN. The spokesperson did not confirm or deny that layoffs were coming to the department, though. Last week, newly confirmed HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced that the agency would launch a US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force. “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we are no longer in a business-as-usual posture and the DOGE task force will play a critical role in helping to identify and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse and ultimately better serve the American people,” Turner said in a statement on Thursday.