Lifeextending maintenance work on the important 140foot icebreaking tugs. 225foot oceangoing buoy tenders. and the Coast Guards training vessel would be scaled back. The deep freeze on the Great Lakes in 2014 cost the shipping industry $705 million and 3.800 jobs. Upgrading the Coast Guards 140foot icebreaking fleet is critical to dealing with these conditions. A shortterm budget would prevent Customs and Border Protection from awarding contracts for new remote video surveillance systems to detect border crossings and track threats. Funding DHS should not be controversial. Playing politics and threatening to cut off critical programs that protect the country from terror attacks would result in consequences we cant afford.
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