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Wicker Urges Biden To Support Coast Guard In Budget Request

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senate photo

The lead Republican on the Senate committee that authorizes the Coast Guard is asking President Joe Biden to support the service’s recapitalization, operations and shore infrastructure accounts in the upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget request for the federal government. “Over the past decade, the U.S. Coast Guard has taken on a greater number of missions to detect, deter, and disrupt terrorist threats and other criminal activity,” Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.), ranking member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee wrote…

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