Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters — who supports taxpayer subsidies for exporters, their foreign customers and the banks that finance them both — tweeted this afternoon about the Export-Import Bank.
FACT: Over the past two decades, @EximBankUS has generated a profit of close to $7 billion dollars for U.S. taxpayers. #HoldAVote #ExIm4Jobs
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) June 24, 2015
Congressman Brendan Boyle another pro-Ex-Im Democrat, also tweeted:
Failure to reauthorize #ExIm will place US industries at a significant disadvantage & harm biz and jobs pic.twitter.com/Jynv2m7Anz
— US Rep Brendan Boyle (@RepBrendanBoyle) June 24, 2015
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) put out on Twitter:
We shouldn’t get rid of an agency that in 2014 returned over $675 million back to the American taxpayers. #ExIm4Jobs pic.twitter.com/22wi261OFi
— Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (@repcleaver) June 24, 2015
These three tweets, along with many others, were scripted by Democratic leadership as part of their “tweetstorm” in defense of subsidies, as Matt Fuller of Roll Call explained:
Here are some suggested tweets that Democratic leadership wants its members to use. Are these, like, good tweets? pic.twitter.com/bU9apsFxK8
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 24, 2015
Alas, this massive grassroots uprising appears likely to fall short, and Ex-Im will enter liquidation on July 1.
