High-ranking House lawmakers press to restore funds to Marine Corps long-range fires efforts
By: Jen Judson  
WASHINGTON — A group of high-ranking House lawmakers are pressing to restore funds cut in the proposed fiscal 2021 defense spending bills for Marine Corps efforts to develop long-range precision fires capabilities.
The cuts would derail the Marine Corps’ plans to field ground-based, anti-ship missile and long-range, precision fires capabilities needed urgently in the Indo-Pacific theater.
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Michael Gallagher, a House Armed Services Committee member with outspoken views on China, and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., lead a list of 10 members of Congress who signed a letter addressed to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, and obtained by Defense News, urging the conference committee working to finalize the FY21 Defense Appropriations Act to reconsider cuts to the Marines’ LRPF programs.
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