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BIDEN EXPANDS DUBIOUS SUBSIDIES FOR MANUFACTURERS

OR NEARLY 90 years, the Export-Import Bank of the United States has subsidized foreign purchases of goods produced by politically connected American businesses. Now it will start loaning money to U.S.companies that do little or no business overseas.

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