FY2020 Budget

HASC Ranking Member Wants Navy to Explain Carrier Early Retirement to Congress

Family and friends wait on the pier for Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) to return to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on Dec. 16, 2018. US Navy Photo

CAPITOL HILL – Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) wants more information about the thinking behind some of Navy and Pentagon’s more contraversial Fiscal Year 2020 budget decisions.

The Navy’s plan to retire USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) decades early, instead of bringing the aircraft carrier in for its scheduled...

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/13/41825

Experts Say Aligning FY2020 Budget With Defense Strategy Could Result in Navy Cuts

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) during an underway on Dec. 2, 2018. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Defense analysts expect President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2020 national security budget will request about $750 billion, a funding level they consider barely enough to sustain the Pentagon’s current operations.

But the dollar amount isn’t as significant as how the money is spent and the types of tradeoffs the Pentagon makes to balance paying for current programs and aligning spending with the Nati...

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/31/40793