{"id":82786,"date":"2026-05-14T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/14\/lawmakers-push-for-domestic-shipbuilding-fixes-as-us-navy-explores-overseas-options\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:13:53","slug":"lawmakers-push-for-domestic-shipbuilding-fixes-as-us-navy-explores-overseas-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/lawmakers-push-for-domestic-shipbuilding-fixes-as-us-navy-explores-overseas-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers push for domestic shipbuilding fixes as US Navy explores overseas options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of Congress on Thursday encouraged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2026\/04\/22\/navy-going-to-study-possibility-of-building-ships-outside-us-phelan-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2026\/04\/22\/navy-going-to-study-possibility-of-building-ships-outside-us-phelan-says\/\">U.S. Navy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/05\/13\/marines-mandate-servicewide-ai-training-by-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/05\/13\/marines-mandate-servicewide-ai-training-by-years-end\/\">Marine Corps<\/a> leaders to prioritize America\u2019s maritime industrial base amid recent discussions about potentially building ships abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/house-committee\/navy-and-marine-corps-leadership-testify-on-the-presidents-2027-budget-request\/679183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">spoke<\/a> about the fiscal 2027 Defense Department budget request at a House Armed Services Committee hearing attended by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing comes several days after the Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2026\/05\/12\/us-navy-open-to-building-ships-overseas-new-plan-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2026\/05\/12\/us-navy-open-to-building-ships-overseas-new-plan-says\/\">released<\/a> a shipbuilding plan that codified the possibility of the service looking to foreign partners for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will echo some of my Democrat colleagues: As many ships as we can build in the United States, we want to build them,\u201d said retired U.S. Navy SEAL Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis. \u201cI understand that we have to go outside of our lines of communications right now because we just have lost the capacity, but I firmly believe that our American men and women, our tradesmen and women, are the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Van Orden added that filling current Navy production gaps through overseas means was acceptable, so long as the onus was equally placed on reviving the maritime industrial base in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cao told lawmakers that the service needed 540,000 jobs to build the ships in the Navy pipeline. 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Jared Golden, D-Maine, a Marine Corps veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leading U.S. Navy ship manufacturer Bath Iron Works would be forced to lay off workers as soon as next year if a \u201cweak demand signal\u201d for American shipbuilding was approved by Congress, according to Golden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican lawmakers weren\u2019t necessarily opposed to building ships overseas, provided that U.S. resources were still relied upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Marine Corps pilot Rep. 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