John Garamendi actually said...

If you don't have the cargo, you don't have the ships, and you don't have the personnel for the ships.

Garamendi emphasizes the importance of cargo for maintaining American shipping capacity.

05/10/2023

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The budget for the Navy... doesn't seem to be enough. It will never be enough to build the fleet necessary.

The tanker program is a good start, but it is not even a sufficient start, just good to get started.

The bottom line of this is if we develop a National Maritime Security Program that uses the Jones Act fleet, makes them militarily useful, a...

We do not have in place today the fleet, the ships, the vessels, the personnel to sustain ourself.