Abolish the Export-Import Bank
What the document says“The Export–Import Bank should be abolished because it wastes taxpayer money, adversely affects American businesses, and does not promote economic growth”
This is the conclusion of the first of the chapter's two essays. It argues that the bank's support is concentrated among a small number of large firms, that it disadvantages American companies that do not receive it, and that it does not add to growth overall.
What the document actually says“The Export–Import Bank should be abolished because it wastes taxpayer money, adversely affects American businesses, and does not promote economic growth”
Close the Export-Import Bank. It wastes public money and does not help the economy.
This bank helps American firms sell abroad. It lends money or backs loans. The first essay says it wastes public money. It says the bank should close.
The chapter itself contains the opposing case. The second essay, by Jennifer Hazelton, argues the bank should be kept and strengthened to counter China. Neither essay is presented as the chapter's conclusion.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed abolishes the Export-Import Bank or ends its funding. EO 14415 mentions the bank only in a savings clause, preserving its lending to the strategic critical minerals reserve known as Project Vault from the order's domestic sourcing requirements. The record runs the other way in several places: EO 14241 directs the bank's president to issue guidance on mineral financing tools, EO 14299 leverages the bank to finance exports of American civil nuclear technology, and EO 14307 directs it to support exports of American made drones. The two export control emergency notices among the candidates concern the export control regulations, not the bank. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.