{"id":28157,"date":"2021-07-12T19:11:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:23:25","slug":"house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 House appropriators ripped a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/02\/12\/upgrading-the-first-four-littoral-combat-ships-not-worth-the-money-us-navy-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships<\/a> contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Appropriations Committee\u2019s report on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/06\/29\/house-pentagon-spending-bill-bumps-up-weapons-procurement\/\" target=\"_blank\">defense spending bill<\/a>, released Monday ahead of its Tuesday markup, offered new details on its many tweaks to Biden\u2019s budget request, and some criticism. The bill, if passed into law, would block three of the four ship retirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed bill would add $915 million for Navy shipbuilding for a total of $23.5 billon for eight new ships \u2015 including shifting $1.5 billion to fund a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer not included in Biden\u2019s budget request. The bill signaled its approval for a follow-on, multiyear contract for the ship class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill also includes a provision to block the retirement of three of the four littoral combat ships the administration asked to retire \u2015 the Fort Worth, the Detroit and the Little Rock \u2015 and it directs the Navy to report to Congress on plans and missions for the ships in its budget request next year. It would allow the Navy to retire the LCS Coronado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Committee is disappointed that the Navy has planned to decommission two ships, the USS Detroit and the USS Little Rock, that are five and four years old, respectively,\u201d the panel\u2019s report read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy\u2019s budget director said during the service\u2019s budget rollout in February that the cost of upgrading and repairing the first four littoral combat ships is too high and that it\u2019s better to decommission them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navy officials argued the ships \u2015 intended to serve as fast and nimble vessels capable of morphing into a minesweeper, antisubmarine platforms or ship-killers \u2015 were less relevant for competition with Russia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the class has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/12\/15\/the-us-navy-is-investigating-a-potential-lcs-class-wide-design-flaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">plagued<\/a> by reliability problems and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2021\/04\/12\/high-operating-costs-cloud-the-future-of-littoral-combat-ships-budget-data-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\">escalating operating costs<\/a>, Capitol Hill pushed back at the Navy\u2019s initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2019\/12\/24\/us-navy-proposes-decommissioning-first-4-lcs-more-than-a-decade-early\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposal in 2019 to decommission the first four littoral combat ships<\/a>, all designated research and development hulls for testing and training missions stateside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress is allowing the LCS 1 and LCS 2 to be decommissioned \u2015 and now LCS 3 (the Fort Worth) and LCS 4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2016\/08\/30\/another-lcs-breaks-down-this-time-in-mid-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Coronado<\/a>) are back on the Navy\u2019s hit list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why lawmakers would be willing to let go of the Coronado when they are working to save three other hulls wasn\u2019t made explicit. While the Freedom variants of the LCS have been suffering engineering challenges, the Coronado belongs to the Independence class, which hasn\u2019t faced the same engineering and reliability issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also said the panel is \u201cdismayed\u201d by the Navy\u2019s decision to remove a projected Arleigh Burke-class destroyer from its budget. The Navy had again removed a major ship procurement from its budget request and then placed it first on its unfunded priority list \u2015 after leaving a Virginia-class submarine out of last year\u2019s budget request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis represents a troubling trend of underfunding ship acquisition programs and then requesting the removed ship as the highest priority on the unfunded priority list,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration\u2019s omission of the second destroyer was controversial on Capitol Hill because without it the Navy cannot meet its obligation under multiyear contracts with both Ingalls Shipbuilding and General Dynamics\u2019 Bath Iron Works. Those contracts call for each of the companies to build one ship in fiscal 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only does such a move harm \u201cthe already fragile domestic shipbuilding industrial base,\u201d the report read, but the Navy had already delayed the detail design and construction schedule of the planned follow-on program to FY26 at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Committee believes that a follow-on multi-year procurement contract beginning in fiscal year 2023 may be a prudent plan to ensure a smooth shipbuilding manufacturing and design industrial base transition from the DDG\u201351 to the follow-on large surface combatant.\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"2":{"categories":["pentagon-congress","news","middle-column","home"],"primary_category":"pentagon-congress"},"7":{"categories":["pentagon-congress","news","daily-news-roundup","newsletters","middle-column","home"],"primary_category":"pentagon-congress"}}},"categories":[44,8,160,16,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3446,3354],"class_list":["post-28157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-daily-news-roundup","category-naval","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"2NCC227Z3VGVZAB7S5SNJYKZ7U","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-12T19:11:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T22:23:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\n\t    \"@context\": \"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\n\t    \"@graph\": [\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Article\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#article\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"author\": {\n\t                \"name\": \"migration\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"headline\": \"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships\",\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2021-07-12T19:11:49+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2026-08-07T22:23:25+00:00\",\n\t            \"mainEntityOfPage\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"wordCount\": 645,\n\t            \"commentCount\": 0,\n\t            \"publisher\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#organization\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"articleSection\": [\n\t                \"Budget\",\n\t                \"Congress\",\n\t                \"Daily News Roundup\",\n\t                \"Naval\",\n\t                \"Newsletters\"\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"CommentAction\",\n\t                    \"name\": \"Comment\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#respond\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships - Defense News\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#website\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"primaryImageOfPage\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2021-07-12T19:11:49+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2026-08-07T22:23:25+00:00\",\n\t            \"description\": \"House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d\",\n\t            \"breadcrumb\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#breadcrumb\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ReadAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#primaryimage\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/12\\\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\\\/#breadcrumb\",\n\t            \"itemListElement\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 1,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Home\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/\",\n\t                    \"ad_zone\": \"home\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 2,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Congress\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/congress\\\/\",\n\t                    \"ad_zone\": \"congress\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 3,\n\t                    \"name\": \"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships\"\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebSite\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#website\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Defense News\",\n\t            \"description\": \"Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News\",\n\t            \"publisher\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#organization\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"SearchAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"EntryPoint\",\n\t                        \"urlTemplate\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"\n\t                    },\n\t                    \"query-input\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"PropertyValueSpecification\",\n\t                        \"valueRequired\": true,\n\t                        \"valueName\": \"search_term_string\"\n\t                    }\n\t                }\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#organization\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Defense News\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/\",\n\t            \"logo\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/defensenews-logo-white.png\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/defensenews-logo-white.png\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"Defense News\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"\n\t            }\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1\",\n\t            \"name\": \"migration\",\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=gcf4cb6ee0ec29e49e7a963234e4340ec\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"migration\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/defensenews\\\/author\\\/migration\\\/\"\n\t        }\n\t    ]\n\t}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships - Defense News","description":"House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships","og_description":"House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/","og_site_name":"Defense News","article_published_time":"2021-07-12T19:11:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-08-07T22:23:25+00:00","author":"Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/"},"author":{"name":"migration","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#\/schema\/person\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1"},"headline":"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships","datePublished":"2021-07-12T19:11:49+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-07T22:23:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/"},"wordCount":645,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg","articleSection":["Budget","Congress","Daily News Roundup","Naval","Newsletters"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/","name":"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships - Defense News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg","datePublished":"2021-07-12T19:11:49+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-07T22:23:25+00:00","description":"House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden\u2019s Pentagon budget request for next year as \u201ca misuse of taxpayer funds.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/07\/12\/house-appropriators-would-protect-three-of-four-littoral-combat-ships\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/","ad_zone":"home"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Congress","item":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/","ad_zone":"congress"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/","name":"Defense News","description":"Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#organization","name":"Defense News","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/defensenews-logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/defensenews-logo-white.png","caption":"Defense News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/#\/schema\/person\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1","name":"migration","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=gcf4cb6ee0ec29e49e7a963234e4340ec","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"migration"},"url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/author\/migration\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Defense News","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews","push-errors":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/32853273557_0b8804bccb_k.jpg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28158,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28157\/revisions\/28158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28157"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}