Trump’s Plan to Revive U.S. Shipping Stumbles
Just this - the rest is at the WSJ behind a paywall.
White House moves prompt staff cuts at a new shipbuilding office and warnings of setbacks at shipyards and the Merchant Marine
Well that’s a shame. I was not holding my breath though. They already made the headlines they wanted their base to see. It’s actions not word that count. Is America great yet?
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I’ll help out and share a free link. Most folks knew he was never serious anyway.
Here’ s the mentioned article from the “liberal” Wall St Journal. Good to know the Heritage Foundation who have always hated the Jones Act are taking a leading role.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-plan-to-revive-u-s-shipping-stumbles-cd855249?st=CNvjTt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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All so we can get a $0.10 price drop at Walmart…
Who are we kidding, all we’ll see is an extra couple mil in the CEO’s bonus
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has $29 Billion earmarked for US Built Navy Ships. Section 20002, page 110 in the link below. At first I didn’t think that was too much but then I seen our newest aircraft carrier, the US Idaho only cost $13 billion which is a really big, complex ship. So ideally we could get 2 more aircraft carriers if we needed them but most likely a dozen smaller class vessels which isn’t too bad.
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They’re already building 2 more aircraft carriers, and they don’t really know what the cost is going to be. The numbers for the last one were pre-Covid rates.
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Who cares the cost the US has plenty of money ! The patriotic children are by law giving up some of their USDA school lunch money and SNAP benefits to pay for this and…
Trumps just said he had another 8.6 Billion for ice breakers 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/eyeing-arctic-dominance-trump-bill-earmarks-86-billion-us-coast-guard-2025-07-03/
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By the time the USCG builds icebreakers, there won’t be much ice left.
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and the US will be much diminished