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On the recordOctober 31, 2017
In June of this year, after 81 years of doling out taxpayer-funded welfare for mega-corporations, the American people said enough and Congress let the Export-Import Bank expire. Yet today, through a little-known and little-used legislative maneuver being used to circumvent the will of the American people, they are resurrecting this fund for corporate welfare.
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Scott Garrett
Republican · New Jersey

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Garrett criticized the Export-Import Bank's reauthorization, calling it corporate welfare.

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