House Appropriators Carve Out $1.5B For DDG Navy Failed To Fund
House lawmakers are irritated by the service’s choice to request a DDG-51 Flight III destroyer on their annual wish list, rather than design a budget that incorporated it.
By Justin Katz on July 12, 2021 at 2:53 PM
WASHINGTON: Angered by the service’s use of annual unfunded priority lists, House appropriators are poised to carve up the Navy’s fiscal year 2022 budget request in order to purchase a second DDG-51 Flight III destroyer.
“This represents a troubling trend of underfunding ship acquisition programs and then requesting the removed ship as the highest priority on the unfunded priority list,” the House Appropriations Committee wrote in a draft report accompanying the FY22 defense spending bill. The committee is set to mark up the defense bill Tuesday.
The “trend” lawmakers refer to in the report is a reference to last year’s Navy budget request, in which the service cut funding for a Virginia-class submarine and subsequently placed it on the annual unfunded priority list.
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