Congress, Marine Corps Want to Give Biden’s US Navy Ship-Building Plan the Heave-Ho

An artist rendering of a new U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate class, Constellation—named after one of the foundling Navy’s first six frigates and the aircraft carrier that was the “workhorse od the 7th fleet” for a half century—that begins production this year the christening of USS Constellation. U.S. Navy Graphic

There appears to be growing bipartisan Congressional consensus, and acknowledgment from with the Biden administration, that its shipbuilding plan for the U.S. Navy is headed for an overhaul.

The Biden administration’s $886 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $842 billion for the Pentagon, which has earmarked $202.5 billion for the Navy, a 4.5 percent increase; and $53.2 billion for the Marine Corps, about a 3-percent hike from the existing budget.