Rubio joins a handful of Republican presidential candidates who have called for Ex-Im’s end
Rubio Takes on Export-Import Bank: ‘Government Should Not Be Picking Winners and Losers’
As hundreds of business owners, bankers and government officials descended on Washington, D.C., in support of the embattled Export-Import Bank, Republicans miles away mobilized to call for the agency’s end.
“The government should not be picking winners and losers when it comes to the free market,” Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told reporters today.
Rubio, a 2016 presidential candidate, outlined his opposition to Ex-Im in a conference call hosted by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity. On the call, the Florida senator denounced the bank as an engine of corporate welfare and cronyism.
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