Russ Feingold: “Quite simply, this amendment will terminate the future production of the Navy's Trident II missile. I have made it a…”

“Quite simply, this amendment will terminate the future production of the Navy's Trident II missile. I have made it a priority to seek to eliminate unnecessary Government spending. In my view, the Trident II program is just the kind of cold war relic that we can and should eliminate. By halting further production of the Trident II missile, we would save American taxpayers more than $460 million in fiscal year 2001 alone, and according to the CBO, we would save $2.6 billion over the next 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. The Navy now has in its arsenal 372 Trident II missiles, and has requested funding this year for an additional 12.”