President Trump vowed on Thursday to unshackle the Pentagon’s budget from sequestration, telling sailors gathered aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford that the move would ultimately allow the U.S. Navy to chart its way to lower costs.

“On Tuesday in my address to a joint session of Congress, I asked Congress to eliminate the defense sequester, and to support my request for a great rebuilding of the United States military and the United States Navy,” Trump said in his speech on the hangar deck of the carrier in Newport News, Va.