Sea power congressmen warn $2B Navy shortfall would allow China and Russia to pull away

Published March 11, 2020 8:40pm ET



President Trump’s diversion of $2 billion to fund the border wall will come at the expense of American sea power, putting the United States at least a decade behind China and Russia due to a lack of maritime investments, say a bipartisan pair of House members.

Reps. Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat and Rob Wittman, a Virginia Republican, both members of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, warned Tuesday that aggressiveness by Russia in the North Atlantic and China in the South China Sea threatened U.S. global dominance, commerce, and the U.S. economy.

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