Dan Webster: “Admiral Fagan, during your address on the state of the Coast Guard, you rightly recognized your Service's funding…”

To date, we have yet to see such a plan, let alone a cost estimate or a timeline of the first vessel in the fleet.

Your maintenance budget will only cover half of the planned cutter maintenance projects in 2024.

However, this committee is well aware also of the aging infrastructure and workforce shortages and insufficient budget that has operationally constrained the Coast Guard for--more than just this year--many years.

Mr. Speaker, we are on the brink of a historic moment. This is a day I have worked toward for a long time. Throughout my time here, I have fought for legislative reforms that will restore a Member-driven process. This is the most…