(The Center Square) — Members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation are criticizing President Joe Biden’s preliminary budget proposal that would cut spending for nuclear submarine production, saying the move would cost jobs and impact the state’s economy.
The Pentagon announced on Monday that it plans to cut a Virginia class submarine built by Groton, Connecticut-based Electric Boat from its proposed fiscal 2025 defense budget.
Congressman Joe Courtney, a ranking member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, said the move would cut funding for a submarine that has already been “partially paid for and built,” which he said “makes little or no sense.”
“This is just the opening bell,” he said in a statement. “If such a cut is actually enacted, it will remove one more attack submarine from a fleet that is already 17 submarines below the Navy’s long stated requirement of 66.”
Courtney noted a commitment the U.S. Department of
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