How border wall hysteria continues to threaten to US icebreaker funds

OPINION: Congress should show the U.S. is serious about its role in the Arctic. It can do so by leaving funding for an icebreaker intact — not raiding it to pay for an ill-advised border wall.

By Dermot Cole December 17, 2018
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It makes no sense to cut money for building a polar class icebreaker so that Congress can fund a U.S. border wall with Mexico.

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