“On Thursday, two Democratic senators said that Trump indicated he would support the bank following a lunch with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. In addition, they said Trump promised to fill two vacant seats on the bank’s board, which in the meantime is barred from financing deals of more than $10 million. ‘I specifically talked with the president about the need to get the Export-Import Bank up and running,’ Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota said. ‘It’s great news he agreed.’ Though the bank said that 90 percent of its authorizations are for small businesses, Boeing is one of its biggest beneficiaries.”
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/10/ex-im-bank-trump-likes-it-conservatives-hate-it.html
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