Biden is making US more vulnerable to Chicom naval operations

 Washington Examiner:

The Navy’s latest shipbuilding plan is falling flat with lawmakers and analysts as the Biden administration's defense budget calls for a reduction in the fleet and the ability to put steel on targets even as China’s naval and Pacific presence grows.

The repackaged shipbuilding plan submitted to Congress departs from Trump-era plans that called for more than 500 new ships by 2045. The ambitious goal submitted by former President Donald Trump's last defense secretary, Mark Esper, lacked any actual funding, but hawks contended it would facilitate the kind of strategy viewed as necessary to counter Beijing's large investment in shipbuilding. Lawmakers have recently warned Pentagon officials they are worried about what they view as Biden’s lack of a long-term naval strategy.

To that end, some hawkish analysts say the 46th commander in chief is allowing the sea service to fall further behind, should his administration opt to wait another year before announcing a long-term fleet growth strategy — if it even decides to swell the fleet beyond existing spending plans.

The administration's fiscal year 2022 budget blueprint also proposes a 9% degradation in the fleet’s overall firepower. Navy officials will have a chance to make their case again before Congress at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.

“I was extremely shocked when the budget came out,” Heritage Foundation analyst and retired Navy Capt. Brent Sadler told the Washington Examiner.

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Sadler said the same Pentagon officials responsible for implementing former President Barack Obama’s failed pivot to Asia are still in high posts inside the Defense Department.

“It's called 'divest to invest.' It's never worked,” he said of the decommissioning of ships that would actually shrink the Navy in hopes that savings will be invested in ship production in coming years. “It basically just becomes a divest to shrink.”

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The Biden administration if further weakening the Navy by pushing the CRT garbage on the sailors.   The Biden administration has become a clear and present danger to the defense of the country.