The Import/Export Bank was a money maker to the tune of $675M per year, so I am shocked that we, the right, wanted to get rid of it without having a private bank lined up to continue it. For one, it leveled the playing field for Boeing, where it competes with Airbus on the global market. Airbus is so beyond govt subsidized that it won the tanker contract with the US Air Force.
(Correction) Boeing won the tanker bid.