In the spring of 2015, back when conservatives in Congress opposed corporate welfare, the Export-Import Bank of the United States was facing defeat. Congressional conservatives, including the party leaders in both chambers, were poised to let Ex-Im’s charter expire on June 30.

While under the microscope, and while the agency and its friends on Wall Street and K Street argued desperately to save it, Ex-Im’s board approved an interesting subsidy.

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