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Republicans, Democrats Alike Exhort Trump: Keep Security Pact with Australia and UK Alive
UNITED STATES, AUG 12 – Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers stress the importance of AUKUS amid Pentagon concerns over shipbuilding capacity and highlight $10 billion in congressional funding since 2018 to boost submarine production.
- Two weeks ago, U.S. lawmakers from both parties urged the Trump administration to maintain the AUKUS pact amid ongoing reviews.
- The Trump administration, struggling with a hollowed-out industrial base, faces workforce shortages and supply chain gaps that threaten U.S. shipbuilding capabilities, CRS warns.
- Australia has invested $1 billion with another $1 billion due this year in U.S. submarine infrastructure, an Australian defense spokesperson said, `Australia was clear that we would make a proportionate contribution to the United States industrial base`.
- In a July 22 letter, Republican Rep. John Moolenaar and Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi emphasized that support for AUKUS is strong and bipartisan, Sen. Tim Kaine said.
- Looking ahead, U.S. shipyards have produced only 1.2 Virginia-class subs annually since 2022, and Jones said, `The right answer is not to be content with the current pace of submarine building. It's to increase the pace.
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Republicans, Democrats Alike Exhort Trump: Keep Security Pact with Australia and UK Alive
U.S. lawmakers from both parties are urging the Trump administration to maintain a three-way security partnership designed to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines — a plea that comes as the Pentagon reviews the agreement and considers the questions it has raised about the American industrial infrastructure's shipbuilding capabilities.
Lawmakers to Trump: Maintain Security Pact With Australia, UK
AUKUS is essential to strengthening deterrence in the Indo-Pacific and advancing the undersea capabilities that will be central to ensuring peace and stability, Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., wrote in a July 22 letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Moolenaar chairs the House panel on China and Krishnamoorthi is its top Democrat.
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