The Ex Im Bank covers high risk deals
‘provides financing for transactions that would otherwise not take place because commercial lenders are either unable or unwilling to accept the political or commercial risk inherent in the deal’
for special cronies
‘Ex-Im Bank makes available “not less than 20%” of its lending authority to small businesses” although they have often fallen short of the 20% threshold.’
especially fat cat cronies.
‘in fiscal year 2013 however, 76% of the value of loans and guarantees went to the top 10 recipients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export-Import_Bank_of_the_United_States
If we can’t even get rid of this turkey, the writing is on the wall. Government will continue to get bigger and spend us into oblivion. The US will be like Greece.