Funding for a long-awaited US heavy icebreaker is target of House GOP cuts
The House version of the 2019 fiscal year Homeland Security budget, is set to cut $750 million in proposed funding for a new icebreaker — diverting some of it to fund a border wall, and increase the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
July 26, 2018
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On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations committee approved its Homeland Security Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2019 — and funding for a new heavy polar icebreaker is notably absent from the bill, critics say.
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