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Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
« on: June 05, 2025, 09:06:47 am »
Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
"The House and Senate are very, very close in the provisions,” SASC Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told reporters. But there are differences.
By   Valerie Insinna
on June 04, 2025 at 4:40 PM
 

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee version of the $150 billion defense reconciliation bill roughly mirrors the House version, but makes spending adjustments to key areas like shipbuilding, nuclear modernization and munitions.

The SASC text, released late Tuesday, will be incorporated in the Senate version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” aimed at facilitating a laundry list of Trump administration priorities, and will ultimately need to be reconciled with the House bill, which passed last month.

“The House and Senate are very, very close in the provisions,” said SASC Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., during a Defense Writers Group event this morning. “[House Armed Services Committee] Chairman [Mike] Rogers and I are really very close together, and the administration is supportive. The difficult portions of reconciliation, and the things that that might trip it up… are really in other parts of the bill.”
 
In a statement released last night, Rogers, R-Ala., said the bill is “a generational investment in our national defense.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/less-ships-more-bombs-senate-unveils-its-version-of-150b-defense-reconciliation-package/
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Re: Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2025, 09:08:14 am »
Our enemies don't have to f*ck up our military because congress will do it for them. :whistle:
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Re: Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2025, 09:09:39 am »
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Re: Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2025, 10:22:01 am »
Bombs don't deliver themselves.

It would be nice to have a fleet of nuclear-powered ships and subs that are capable of delivering bombs or missiles en-masse to our enemies.

How much have the Chi-coms paid these Congressmen and their families to let America's defense industry atrophy?

A munition is useless without a delivery system or a delivery platform.
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Re: Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
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Quote from: rangerrebew on June 05, 2025, 09:06:47 am
Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package
"The House and Senate are very, very close in the provisions,” SASC Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told reporters. But there are differences.
By   Valerie Insinna
on June 04, 2025 at 4:40 PM
 

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee version of the $150 billion defense reconciliation bill roughly mirrors the House version, but makes spending adjustments to key areas like shipbuilding, nuclear modernization and munitions.

The SASC text, released late Tuesday, will be incorporated in the Senate version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” aimed at facilitating a laundry list of Trump administration priorities, and will ultimately need to be reconciled with the House bill, which passed last month.

“The House and Senate are very, very close in the provisions,” said SASC Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., during a Defense Writers Group event this morning. “[House Armed Services Committee] Chairman [Mike] Rogers and I are really very close together, and the administration is supportive. The difficult portions of reconciliation, and the things that that might trip it up… are really in other parts of the bill.”
 
In a statement released last night, Rogers, R-Ala., said the bill is “a generational investment in our national defense.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/less-ships-more-bombs-senate-unveils-its-version-of-150b-defense-reconciliation-package/

"Shipbuilding projects - the largest single bucket in both bills - lost about $5 billion in funds in the SASC version, going from about $34 billion to $29 billion. In the biggest change, the SASC bill zeroes out about $4.8 billion in funding for a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock and America-class amphibious assault ship. It adds $300 million for medium unmanned surface vessels, bringing the total spend to $2.1 billion."
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It will be a long slog to reach the 100 ship Navy but we can do it!

Meanwhile, China churns out ships like hot cakes ...
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