No New Ships: Trump Cuts Navy Shipbuilding, Aircraft Procurement

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 No New Ships: Trump Cuts Navy Shipbuilding, Aircraft Procurement
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM

PENTAGON: Despite his campaign pledge of a 350-ship fleet, President Trump’s first budget cuts Navy shipbuilding and aircraft procurement below what was enacted in 2017, documents released today reveal. Despite Trump’s criticism of President Obama’s defense plans, this budget sticks with Obama’s shipbuilding plan for 2018: eight ships. And it actually buys eight fewer aircraft than Obama planned.

So we were overly optimistic last week when we predicted Trump would add at least one warship (a $1.8 billion Aegis destroyer) and possibly two (a $550 million Littoral Combat Ship) to the Obama plan. Instead, it adds zip, zero — nada.

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