July 21, 2025

Warren Calls Out FHFA Director Pulte for "Abnormal" Behavior on Social Media Directed at Fed Chair Powell, Requests Copy of His Schedule To Determine if He is Doing His Job

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July 21, 2025
Contact: Timothy White (Banking)

Warren Calls Out FHFA Director Pulte for “Abnormal” Behavior on Social Media Directed at Fed Chair Powell, Requests Copy of His Schedule To Determine if He is Doing His Job

“Instead of working to fulfill your mission as regulator and conservator, you have spent recent weeks intensely focused on convincing President Trump to illegally fire Chair Powell. Since the start of July, you have posted or reposted more than 100 items on X related to Chair Powell.”

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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, wrote to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte about his abnormal behavior directed at Fed Chair Jerome Powell, including his prolific social media use, and whether these actions are preventing him from fulfilling his responsibilities to oversee trillions of dollars in federally backed mortgage loans and lower housing costs for the American people.

“Your job is to manage FHFA, oversee our nation’s mortgage market, and lower costs for American families–full stop. Your prolific activity on X and apparent decision to take time away from your duties as FHFA Director to draft a letter for President Trump to fire Chair Powell are abnormal. Your behavior raises significant questions about your judgement and commitment to operating FHFA in a responsible, competent, and lawful manner,” wrote Ranking Member Warren.

The Ranking Member noted that since the beginning of July alone, Director Pulte has posted or reposted more than 100 times on X about Chair Powell. The Ranking Member listed Pulte’s 15 posts about Chair Powell on July 16th alone.

Ranking Member Warren continued: “During your nomination process, I raised concerns about your excessive and unusual use of social media, and how that reflected on your temperament and fitness to serve. It now appears that my concerns were prescient.”

The Ranking Member concluded by asking Director Pulte for copies of all of his posts and reposts on social media platforms regarding Chair Powell, for details about how much time social media is taking up out of his schedule, and for details about his involvement in the Trump Administration’s move to establish pretext to fire Chair Powell.

During Director Pulte’s confirmation process, Ranking Member Warren wrote to Pulte requesting copies of the 25,000 posts on X that he deleted ahead of his confirmation, which have yet to be provided.

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