The Hill:


A House panel is backing adding a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the Navy’s fiscal 2022 budget, the latest move in Congress to stray from the administration’s defense budget request.

In its portion of the annual defense policy bill, the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower subcommittee is recommending the full committee approve buying a total of eight new warships, committee aides told reporters on a background call Tuesday.

That’s the same total number requested by the Biden administration. But, the panel is recommending two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers instead of the one requested by the administration, and one towing, salvage and rescue ship instead of two…



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