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HASC Members Push For New SecNav Amid Upcoming Budget Debate

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

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HASC Members Push For New SecNav Amid Upcoming Budget Debate

Thomas Harker, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Harker assumed is role on January 20 as the Biden Administration came into office. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Several members of the House Armed Services Committee Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee Thursday asked the Biden administration to nominate the next Secretary of the Navy amid the upcoming budget submission and debates. During the hearing, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) underscored “it would be great, if the Biden administration’s listening, if they moved with a sense of urgency to nominate a Secretary of the Navy. This is our priority force in the priority theater and I think this committee would…

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