As we noted last week, Congress cooked the books to pay for the payroll-tax holiday in part by mandating a hike in the GSEs’ g-fees. Here, we turn to the policy implications of the budget-balancing gymnastics, concluding that it will make it considerably more difficult to restructure Fannie and Freddie – not that this was ever going to be easy, of course.
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