When the Navy needs reinforcing to face China, Congress is abdicating its responsibility to appropriate money in a regular manner to allow the Navy to efficiently use taxpayer money.
What fresh incompetence is this?
If the federal government ends up operating under a continuing resolution this fall, the U.S. Navy wouldn’t be able to buy the ships and weapons it needs in fiscal 2022, wouldn’t have enough money operate the fleet and might have to cut back on people, the Navy’s top budget officer said.
Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, said during a panel at the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space conference that under a CR, which maintains FY21 spending levels, the service would have $14 billion in the wrong funding accounts.
So not only is the Navy not getting more money, the Navy is forbidden from moving money around to use it for more pressing needs under that scenario.
Which is possible. Murphy's Law says that what can go wrong, will go wrong. And Congress.
Bravo, Congress. Bravo.
