Trump Housing Chief Restarts Battle With the Credit-Score Industry -- WSJ
Dow Jones2026/09/04 15:07By WSJ Staff
The stocks of the companies that create your credit score are tumbling Friday after the Trump administration's housing chief said they had been "overcharging" Americans and he was further empowering a new rival.
Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, renewed a fight he'd started with the credit-scoring industry last year with some posts on X Friday. Pulte said he was giving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the authority to accept mortgages now backed by scores from startup VantageScore.
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