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Trump Approves Of AUKUS Moving Along, Says Expediting Sub Sales To Australia

Monday, October 20th, 2025

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Trump Approves Of AUKUS Moving Along, Says Expediting Sub Sales To Australia

Launching of the Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN-783) at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding division. (Photo: HII)

President Donald Trump clearly approved of the trilateral AUKUS agreement on Monday and even indicated the U.S. would expedite the sale and delivery of three to five nuclear-powered attack submarines. Speaking next to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to sign a bilateral agreement on critical mineral mining, when Trump was asked if the AUKUS submarine sales deal is still viable given submarine production issues, he responded “we do actually have a lot of submarines, we have the best submarines anywhere…

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