Plenty of money for illegal immigrant healthcare and transgender prison inmates,though.
Don’t forget Congress’ sexual harassment/assault funds. There is NO way we taxpayers should be paying that!
Much as with computers, in modern infocentric warfare, 26 is an eternity.
That said, these mothballed ships were cruisers of the modern type with minimal hull armor. Their hulls are worn out and need replacement. Replacement costs a significant part of the price of a new ship and results in an old, slow, limited combatant that’s more a liability than an asset.
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.
On 1 May, President Trump announced he overrode the decision to decommission USS Harry S. Truman, stating “I am overriding the Decommission Order of the magnificent aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, built in 1998 (fairly new), and considered one of the largest and finest in the world. It will be updated at a fraction of the cost of a new one (which also are being built)!”[64]
In late August it was announced that a malfunction of the ship’s electrical distribution system would prevent its scheduled deployment.