WATCH LIVE: House Armed Services Committee holds hearing on Navy fiscal 2024 budget request
Conrad Hoyt
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The House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing Friday morning to listen to the Navy’s budget request for fiscal 2024.
The committee will listen to testimony from Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro; Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations; and Gen. David Berger, Marine Corps commandant.
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The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. at the Rayburn House Office Building. It comes in the wake of a confrontational Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week in which senators grilled Del Toro over the failure of the Navy’s shipbuilding plan to meet the goals mandated by a provision of the NDAA law that passed the committee unanimously.
The Navy’s plan is to get smaller to save money to get bigger in the long term, a strategy known as “divest to invest.” However, some Republican lawmakers are more than skeptical about the plan. Even Democratic senators such as Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) have concerns.
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The Navy has requested money for new ships, as well as permission to retire older ones. But what Congress decides will in part come down to Friday’s hearing.
A principal concern among lawmakers is the looming threat of China in the Pacific and across the globe.