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Budget

Blumenthal Leads Senate Push Supporting Two SSNs in 2025

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

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Blumenthal Leads Senate Push Supporting Two SSNs in 2025

The Virginia-class submarine future USS Delaware (SSN-791) at sea for sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean on Aug, 31, 2019. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) this week led a bipartisan group of senators in a letter requesting Senate appropriators fund two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) in the fiscal year 2025 budget. The letter was addressed to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Chair Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). The senators argue the Navy’s request for only one SSN “sends a terrible message to the submarine industrial base working vigorously to rebuild in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.…

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