Club for Growth: Export-Import Bank “Grubered” Their Data

Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “Does Jonathan Gruber consult for the Export-Import Bank as well?”

Washington, DC – The Club for Growth released the following statement in response to a Reuter’s news report that the Export-Import Bank classified several companies owned by billionaires like Warren Buffett as “small businesses” when fighting for reauthorization by Congress:

“Does Jonathan Gruber consult for the Export-Import Bank as well? It’s appalling, but not surprising, that a corporate welfare slush fund like the Export-Import Bank would mislead the public about their data in order to stay alive,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “Maybe Fred Hochberg thinks, like Gruber, that a lack of transparency is a political asset. The Export-Import Bank should be shut down immediately, and members of Congress should look skeptically at anything the bank says about what it does for small businesses – the data may be ‘Grubered.’”