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U.S. Coast Guard objects to Trump's funding cut [View all]
Remember this? Just last May?
WASHINGTON — President Trump is proposing increased military spending in his 2018 budget, but the proposal cuts $1.3 billion from the U.S Coast Guard, reducing its budget by 12%.
The Coast Guard is not happy about the news.
“We have always prided ourselves as a service that punches above our weight class. Yet, as our nation’s fifth armed service, we are budgeted at the bottom,” said Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, the 25th commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, during an annual speech at the National Press Club on Thursday.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/16/us-coast-guard-objects-trumps-funding-cut/99274238/
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