{"id":23383,"date":"2017-03-14T00:59:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T07:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/murkowski-coast-guard-cuts-conflict-with-trump-security-goals\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T00:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T07:59:39","slug":"murkowski-coast-guard-cuts-conflict-with-trump-security-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/murkowski-coast-guard-cuts-conflict-with-trump-security-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski: Coast Guard cuts conflict with Trump security goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU &mdash; U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says a proposed $1.3 billion cut to the Coast Guard&rsquo;s budget conflicts with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s goal of strengthening border security and rebuilding the armed services.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Republican outlined her concerns in a letter to Trump, released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>She says the cuts proposed by the Office of Management and Budget would have &ldquo;far-reaching implications on national security&rdquo; and force the Coast Guard to halt a program in which it replaces older ships with state-of-the-art vessels built in U.S. shipyards.<\/p>\n<p>Without replacements for failing ships, she says, the agency would have to choose where to focus its resources.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski cited a need for a physical presence in the Arctic, an area in which she says the U.S. lags because the Coast Guard lacks sufficient ice-breaking capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU &mdash; U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says a proposed $1.3 billion cut to the Coast Guard&rsquo;s budget conflicts with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s goal of strengthening border security and rebuilding the armed services. The Alaska Republican outlined her concerns in a letter to Trump, released Monday. She says the cuts proposed by the Office of Management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23383"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}