Lawmakers Still Lack Details on Pentagon Shipbuilding Plan

Two senior lawmakers said they don’t have enough information to evaluate the Trump administration’s “hard rudder turn” on its shipbuilding budget that was presented last month to Congress. “We’re weeks away from having to put this thing away,” and his panel doesn’t have the documents it requires for oversight, Rep. Joe Courtney, (D-Conn.), said on Monday at the Hudson Institute. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper ordered to hold off on delivering the Navy’s long-range shipbuilding plan pending a big Pentagon evaluation of the service’s upcoming force structure assessment. Without the supporting documents about the course ahead, “this budget is really … Continue reading Lawmakers Still Lack Details on Pentagon Shipbuilding Plan