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The White House on Monday sent Congress a funding request that includes construction of a second new heavy polar icebreaker and two additional medium endurance cutters but would stretch out two other key Coast Guard shipbuilding programs, the National Security and Fast Response Cutters. The request for the Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2021 acquisition budget would be just over $1.6 billion, 7 percent less than Congress provided in FY ’20 and about $400 million below the minimum threshold the service…
