
The House Appropriations Committee criticized the Navy for cutting a destroyer from the previously planned fiscal year 2022 budget request and its plan to decommission additional littoral combat ships (LCSs) in the newly released defense appropriations bill report. The report, released Monday, said the committee “is dismayed by the Navy’s decision to remove one DDG–51 Flight III Destroyer from the planned fiscal year 2022 budget request.” The FY ‘22 budget request previously received a negative reaction from the congressional defense…