The little-known Export-Import Bank is in peril as the GOP crazy caucus sharpens the knives to cut its funding entirely (or not reauthorize it, to be more precise). The government bank loans money to American companies like Boeing and General Motors that export products overseas. Its supporters say the bank's responsible for thousands of jobs and losing those jobs is something House Speaker John Boehner would like to avoid, putting him in a pickle yet again with his right flank. Lauren French
has the details:
Democrats want to reauthorize the bank and say it would pass if the speaker allowed a vote, but that would mean defying the wishes of a majority of the GOP conference.

[Texas Rep. Jeb] Hensarling, along with Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Raúl Labrador of Idaho and Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, said enough of the 245-member Republican delegation are opposed to preserving the bank that House Republican leaders should let the agency die on June 30.
Still, there are deep divisions within the GOP over the bank. Boehner has said letting the bank’s authorization expire could kill thousands of jobs, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are pushing aggressively to extend its charter.
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (along with every GOP 2016 hopeful) also favors killing the bank, which really puts the screws to Boehner. But the bank's Senate supporters, both Republican and Democratic, hope to reauthorize funding through an amendment to the trade legislation McConnell is pushing to finish by week's end. If they succeed, Boehner will really be in the hot seat.