The Treasury Department's bond buyback program is scheduled to begin in September.
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Bulwark TakesAug 21, 2026
As of 2026-08-21, the Treasury had announced (Aug 19) that its long-dated buyback operations would be at least doubled, starting September 9, and the schedule shows September operations.
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… Do you remember, like, Matt Gaetz's nomination is getting pulled, and Cash Patel's going through, and people are like, but look, at least they got Bess into Treasury. Do you remember that? Yeah. So, anyway, so, uhm, this has so far failed spectacularly. They haven't actually done the buybacks yet. Uh, that's gonna happen in September, so we'll see. Maybe things will work their way around between now and then. Uhm, but, uh, we have some do we have some clips? …
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Supports. Treasury's tentative schedule lists the September 2026 liquidity-support buyback operations, with the enlarged maximum sizes, as scheduled after the August announcement.[2]
Supports. The BIS Quarterly Review reports that the Treasury announced on August 19 that long-end buyback maximums would double to at least $4 billion per operation, effective from September 9 through November 4.[3]
Supports. Reuters reports the Treasury's September 10 buyback operation of up to $6 billion in 10- to 20-year bonds, following the earlier announced expansion.[1]
Context. The vault report says the Treasury's long-bond buyback program began in April 2024 and that the doubled limit was the first change since then, so the literal 'program begins in September' reading does not hold; only the expanded operations start in September.[4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 2 not rated
- 1US Treasury to buy up to $6 billion in Sept 10 buyback operationreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Tentative Schedule of Treasury Buyback Operationshome.treasury.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3BIS Quarterly Review, September 2026bis.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Treasury Doubled Its Buybacks. Dealers Want Out Faster ...thevaultreport.com · not rated · cited for: context
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