Coast Guard faces widening mission and shrinking budget

The Coast Guard is struggling to keep pace, seizing about 20 percent of all the drugs that come into the United States through a coastal border, as its aging fleet attempts to pursue the speedboats favored by traffickers. Source: Coast Guard faces widening mission and shrinking budget | The Seattle Times

Coast Guard official laments lack of funding

“I’m delighted that Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps are being plused up, but we’ve got nothing left,” said Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, at a conference hosted by the Navy League at National Harbor in Maryland. Source: Coast Guard official laments lack of funding

Protect Coast Guard

President Trump wants to take money away from the Coast Guard, which performs vital, lifesaving functions — and use it mainly to finance a wall between the United States and Mexico, which wouldn’t. To recap some key reasons why the wall is a silly idea: 1) Even before the recent plunge in illegal immigration from … Read more