Budget Battle Threatens Coast Guard’s War on Drugs
4/12/2017
By Jon Harper
The ability of the Coast Guard to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States could be further hampered if Congress doesn’t pass a new budget in the coming weeks, the service’s commandant said April 12.
The Coast Guard is already stretched thin as it seeks to interdict shipments of cocaine and other banned substances, Adm. Paul Zukunft noted at a meeting with defense reporters in Washington, D.C.
“It truly is a capacity issue,” he said. “It’s the number of planes, number of ships that we have.”
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