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I think you guys are not understanding how Congress works. Sometimes it says "build something in my district!" and sometimes it says "you don't have enough ships so don't retire the most expensive ones to maintain!". It is not a logical process. And starting a new ship class for what is an expeditionary navy is stupid. Build more frigates or build more coast guard cutters. Done. Making new ships always costs the US an arm and a leg; we are buying a foreign design for fuck sake. Take the existing CG cutter classes and take the existing FFGX and just fucking build enough of them without creating the spiral death of a new program.