Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac quietly increased their purchases of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) in 2025, helping push mortgage spreads lower toward the year’s end. Most analysts, however, were not expecting further meaningful tightening in the near term — at least until this week.

That changed Thursday after President Donald Trump posted on social media that he’s directing representatives at the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to acquire $200 billion in mortgage bonds.

The comments triggered a flight into MBS and further narrowed mortgage spreads — the gap between the 10-year Treasury yield and 30-year mortgage details ⇒

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