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Congress Eliminates Funding For Proposed Coast Guard Commercial Polar Icebreaker

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Congress Eliminates Funding For Proposed Coast Guard Commercial Polar Icebreaker
Computer rendering of Coast Guard's proposed polar security cutter. (Image: Coast Guard)

The bipartisan Omnibus funding bill introduced early Tuesday morning would cut a proposed $150 million for the Coast Guard to purchase and crew a commercially-available vessel that would meet the service’s near-term needs for a medium polar icebreaker to fill existing gaps in this mission area. The proposed fiscal year 2023 appropriation bill doesn’t say why the funding request for the commercial icebreaker was rejected even though the House and Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittees fully funded the proposal this…

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