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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

White House’s Navy Priorities Outlined in Budget Summary

President Donald J. Trump speaks to service members and their families onboard Naval Air Station Sigonella during an all-hands call in 2017. US Navy Photo

President Donald Trump released his Fiscal Year 2020 budget priorities Monday, which includes several Navy programs he intends to fund in his $718-billion Department of Defense budget request.

The White House request includes adding a third Virginia-class attack submarine to the Navy’s planned FY 2020 purchase and a third Arleigh Burke-class...

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/11/white-houses-navy-priorities-outlined-budget-summary