They wanted to scrap the Truman and not do her midlife refit & refuel and Trump and congress said no way. Truman is in port with major electrical issues delaying her deployment and extending the USS Lincoln’s deployment. The delays cause a cascade effect on other ships awaiting their turn in dry dock. The USS Ford can’t deploy because only 4 of her 9 electro magnetic weapons elevators work. Our problem is ship yards that can do quality work in a timely manner.
And why the USN can’t build a new class of cruisers is beyond me. The LCS class has been a waste of resources and the Zumwalt class seems to be headed the same direction.
We can’t build new cruisers because we don’t have any on the drawing boards. It will take about a decade to design, build and fit out just one.
Also, to be fair, mission and size creep has kind of rendered cruisers pointless. Our current Zumwalt ‘destroyer’ is the size (but not displacement) of some battleships that fought in WW2.