The Biden Administration has selected Reta Jo Lewis to become the next President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM), provided she makes it through the confirmation process in the Senate.
Lewis managed to last through a voice vote in the Senate Banking Committee last month with just Republican Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming recording negative votes.
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While Lewis is expected to prevail in a full Senate floor vote, her connection to pro-China groups has left some Republicans on the Hill concerned.
"The EX-IM Bank represents crony capitalism at its worst, providing taxpayer-financed giveaways to large corporations and foreign governments like China," Toomey, the ranking member of the Banking Committee, told Fox News. "The bank has a history of forcing American taxpayers to support loans to the Export-Import Bank of China and even the Bank of China itself."
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"I am not convinced Ms. Lewis will end these subsidies to the Chinese government, which is just one of many reasons why I am opposing Ms. Lewis’ nomination," he added.
Lewis' current position as a "Strategic Adviser" for the United States Heartland China Association (USHCA) – a bipartisan group committed to promoting relations between the U.S. and China – has raised GOP eyebrows.
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Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who has been hard on China, said the USHCA serves as a conduit to the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Chinese President Xi Jingping reportedly referred to this as his "magic weapon."
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"I think it is certainly a poor choice and depending on the decisions that she makes moving forward – dangerous," Rubio told Fox News. "To see this bank empowered to go out there and co-finance projects that are not in our national interest would be a disaster."
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Rubio, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested that the U.S. is "almost out of time" to adequately counter CCP threats facing the U.S. economy.
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"We are now at a period of time where the issue with China is so critical, we can’t afford to send or put into positions of great influence anyone who isn’t clear about the threat China poses and how strong we have to be about it. We’ve already waited too long to address this," he added.
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Other GOP lawmakers told Fox News that they have concerns about Lewis tackling China.
Lummis’ office said the Senator views the Export-Import Bank as a "corporate subsidy giving big corporations a leg up on their competition."