Christie: End Ex-Im
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has come out against the Export-Import Bank, whose congressional charter lapsed June 30 and which conservatives vehemently oppose.
{mosads}The Republican presidential candidate told news website The Daily Signal that “it’s time for it to go.”
“I don’t think the expenditure on the Export-Import Bank is something that is indispensable to economic growth or opportunity in our country, so I’d move on to something else,” Christie told the Signal.
Christie joins most of the other top-tier GOP candidates in opposing the bank, which Democrats, including Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, support.
The business community is aggressively lobbying lawmakers to reauthorize the bank this fall. They argue that the bank’s international financing helps to sustain U.S. jobs.
GOP presidential candidates Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) support the bank.
Top-tier GOP candidates including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Donald Trump oppose it.
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