Dan Webster: “Funding levels from 2022 would mean reduced search and rescue capacity, resulting in more deaths on the water.”

While recovery efforts continue, it is important that we also maintain stable trade flows.

Given these immense resources, it should come as no surprise that adversaries, including Russia and China, are working to assert themselves in the region.

If Congress does not double the Coast Guard's budget in 2026, the Service will either have to abandon the program.

The House passed an authorization bill earlier this year that begins to appropriately resource the Coast Guard.