{"id":1922062,"date":"2023-05-01T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-marine-corps-want-to-give-bidens-us-navy-ship-building-plan-the-heave-ho\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:44:21","slug":"congress-marine-corps-want-to-give-bidens-us-navy-ship-building-plan-the-heave-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-marine-corps-want-to-give-bidens-us-navy-ship-building-plan-the-heave-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress, Marine Corps Want to Give Biden\u2019s US Navy Ship-Building Plan the Heave-Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-marine-corps-want-to-give-bidens-us-navy-ship-building-plan-the-heave-ho%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922062&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The U.S. Navy&#8217;s Shipbuilding Plan Faces Overhaul<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0501\/24dbc7d0-cd5b-4078-b124-7ce909563b95\/audio.mp3?length=11563245&#038;duration=964\"><\/div>\n<p>There appears to be growing bipartisan Congressional consensus, and acknowledgment from within the Biden administration, that its shipbuilding plan for the U.S. Navy is headed for an overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s $886 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $842 billion for the Pentagon, which has earmarked $202.5 billion for the Navy, a 4.5 percent increase; and $53.2 billion for the Marine Corps, about a 3-percent hike from the existing budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately with today\u2019s record-level of inflation, these increases don\u2019t go very far,<\/strong> House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said. <strong>We are seeing that very clearly in the request for ship-building.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Scaling Down the Fleet<\/h3>\n<p>In June 2021, in its first annual update for the Navy\u2019s 30-year shipbuilding plan, the Biden administration scaled down the size of the fleet planned during the Trump administration from 400 ships by 2050 to between 321 and 372, with 355 ships being the target.<\/p>\n<p>In its FY23 budget, the administration requested funding for nine new combat ships while decommissioning 16. Congress agreed to build the nine ships but only consented to mothballing four of the 16 headed for the scrapyard.<\/p>\n<p>In its FY24 budget request, the administration is proposing nine new ships while divesting 11, including three cruisers, three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-the-u-s-navy-retiring-24-ships-are-plans-for-a-mega-fleet-dead\/\" title=\"With The U.S. Navy Retiring 24 Ships, Are Plans for a Mega-Fleet Dead?\">amphibious dock landing ships<\/a>, and two littoral combat ships.<\/p>\n<h3>Congress Wary of Quick Cruiser Divestment<\/h3>\n<p>Del Toro said the three cruisers\u2014the USS Cowpens, USS Shiloh, USS Vicksburg\u2014are within three years of their end-of-service-life dates and wired with obsolete technologies.<\/p>\n<p>They are among 17 Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers the Navy wants to replace with Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers. The current plan calls for all 17, built in the 1980s through mid-90s, to be mothballed by FY27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe cost associated with repairing, modernizing, and sustaining the hulls significantly outweigh any war-fighting contribution they provide to the fleet, and occupy limited, valuable private shipyard space that could be better used for maintaining more-lethal ships,\u201d<\/strong> he said. <strong>\u201cWe have essentially inherited \u2018John Lehman\u2019s Navy.\u2019 Ships get old.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>No Replacements<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) said the administration has now sought to divest five cruisers over the last two years without replacing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m not a mathematician but I do not know of any math that allows you to do addition by subtraction,\u201d<\/strong> he said, noting the three cruisers\u2019 124 missile tubes firepower is not being replaced. <strong>\u201cCapacity is, by itself, critically important. Quantity has a quality all its own.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Amphibious Ship Plan Criticized<\/h3>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s FY24 plan calls for retiring three amphibious ships; the USS Germantown, USS Gunston Hall, and USS Tortuga. The three are among seven Whidbey-class landing dock ships (LHDs) being replaced by San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships (LPD).<\/p>\n<p>The LHDs\/LPDs are among a fleet of amphibious ships that include helicopter assault landing (LHA) ships and multi-purpose amphibious assault (LSDs) ships that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-marine-corps-want-to-give-bidens-us-navy-ship-building-plan-the-heave-ho\/\" title=\"Congress, Marine Corps Want to Give Biden\u2019s US Navy Ship-Building Plan the Heave-Ho\">resemble small aircraft carriers designed<\/a> to support Marine expeditionary forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy maintains two Marine expeditionary units (MEUs) at sea at all times to respond to unfolding crises. To support those two MEUs and five other MEUs training ashore, a 2019 Amphibious Force Requirements Study determined that a 31-vessel fleet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-there-will-be-costs-for-americans-here-at-home-as-a-result-of-my-foreign-policy-decisions\/\" title=\"Biden: There Will Be \u2018Costs\u2019 For Americans \u2018Here At Home\u2019 As A Result Of My Foreign Policy Decisions\">amphibious assault ships<\/a> was \u201cthe bare minimum necessary\u201d and Congress installed that number as a statutory baseline.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal 31-ship alignment is 10 LHD\/LHAs and 21 LPD\/LSD ships, according to the Navy. But under its FY21 budget request, three LDHs are designated for divestment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clear indication that the government is taking the Navy&#8217;s shipbuilding plan seriously. Both sides of Congress are coming together to agree that changes need to be made, and the Biden administration is on board too. With a whopping $886 billion budget request for FY24, the Pentagon is putting $202.5 billion towards the Navy&#8217;s shipbuilding plan. It&#8217;s clear that the government is committed to making sure the Navy has the resources it needs to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1922063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3706,4402,8131,25524,7801,6758,4025,25525],"class_list":["post-1922062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bidens","tag-congress","tag-corps","tag-heave-ho","tag-marine","tag-navy","tag-plan","tag-ship-building"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}