Fact checking Trump 4: The Coast Guard

[PLC1]

We will be building the first new heavy icebreakers the United States has seen in over 40 years.!

and a wall, and making America Great again, and winning the war with ISIS, and bringing peace to the Middle East, and bringing back those coal mining jobs, and replacing Obamacare with something better, and and......

TRUMP told Coast Guard cadets of his "historic investment in our military," adding: "I'm proud to say that under my administration, as you just heard, we will be building the first new heavy icebreakers the United States has seen in over 40 years." — speech to Coast Guard Academy May 17.

THE FACTS: Although his rousing words earned applause from the cadets, Trump's budget this past week excludes the Coast Guard from his planned expansion of military spending. He's proposing to cut the Coast Guard budget by more than $420 million, or 3.8 percent, while increasing military spending overall. The Coast Guard is under the Homeland Security Department, not the Pentagon.

The icebreaker project he boasts about started under the Obama administration and Trump's budget would advance it only incrementally, spending $19 million to continue efforts "toward awarding a contract" for design and construction in 2019. "We all know that doesn't get us an icebreaker," Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told a budget hearing, "but it gets us started."

So, maybe in another couple of decades, if there is still ice in the Arctic.

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[Aus22]

You will not nee icebreakers If Trump withdraws from the Paris agreement.

 

[Old_Trapper70]

We will be building the first new heavy icebreakers the United States has seen in over 40 years.!

and a wall, and making America Great again, and winning the war with ISIS, and bringing peace to the Middle East, and bringing back those coal mining jobs, and replacing Obamacare with something better, and and......

So, maybe in another couple of decades, if there is still ice in the Arctic.

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Obama called for more ice breakers 2 years ago, however, the Repugnant ones did not fund it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/8/obama-calls-for-more-icebreakers-despite-lack-of-f/

"By next decade the U.S. will have no heavy ice breaker, while expansion-minded Russia, with a considerably larger Arctic border, owns six nuclear-powered ice breakers — four of which are operational and 40 overall.

Both in 2014 and this year, the Department of Homeland Security slashed spending by 73 percent to plan for just one more icebreaker, much less a new fleet. Next year’s fiscal 2016 budget cuts that funding even more, from $230 million to $166 million.

The current budget does “not state when a construction contract for the ship might be awarded, creating uncertainty about the timing of the project,” says a new report by the Congressional Research Service"


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-alaska-calls-more-u-s-icebreakers-changing-arctic-n419336