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April 30th, 2025 | 6:59 PM ET

The U.S. Tries to Halt a Shipbuilding Crisis

The Trump administration vows a shipbuilding renaissance to counter China; experts say it can't come soon enough

Service men and women watch from the the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum as the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship from Norfolk, Virginia, arrives into New York Harbor on Wednesday on May 24, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Posted: April 29th, 2025

By The Cipher Brief

EXPERT INTERVIEWS — There is at least one issue involving national security and U.S. manufacturing that enjoys bipartisan support – and at least one Trump administration executive order that hasn’t met much opposition: it involves shipbuilding, and a potentially dangerous problem for the United States.

Put simply, the U.S. isn’t building enough ships – commercial or Navy vessels – and many of the ships it is building are being delivered late and over budget. And as with many issues on the U.S. national security docket, this one lands squarely in the sphere of U.S.-China competition.

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