Trump’s battleship fleet could cost $275 billion, CBO says
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s so-called Golden Fleet of around 15 nuclear-powered battleships could cost as much as $275 billion to develop and acquire through 2056, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
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The Navy plans to buy USS Defiant in fiscal 2028 at a gross weapon-system cost of $17.47 billion. USS Gerald R. Ford, a 100,000-ton nuclear supercarrier, cost $13.3 billion in nominal dollars across two decades of appropriations. Defiant is a 41,000-ton surface combatant.
President Trump’s new class of battleships, which are envisioned to anchor the U.S. Navy’s “Golden Fleet,” are expected to cost around $275 billion to build, according to a government report released Wednesday. The first of 15 ships, the USS Defiant, is projected to cost around $23.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Navy’s new Trump-class battleship program will cost $275 billion, with the first ship costing $23.4 billion.
Each of the 15 nuclear-powered "Trump-class" battleships will cost more than $18 billion, which puts them in the range of the Navy's Ford-class super carriers.
The Congressional Budget Office now estimates the Trump-class program at $275 billion for 15 ships, rising to $455 billion if the president's 25-ship "Golden Fleet" is built. Mark Cancian of CSIS is blunt about the outcome: "It will take years to design, cost $9 billion each to build and contravene …
(The Center Square) – The Congressional Budget Office estimates President Donald Trump's "Golden Fleet" of nuclear-powered battleships would cost taxpayers about $275 billion for 15 ships through 2056, an estimate the agency calls "highly uncertain."
The Trump class could become the Navy’s most powerful surface combatant, or a $23.4 billion monument to the dangerous belief that one enormous ship can solve every problem at once.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s so-called Golden Fleet of around 15 nuclear-powered battleships could cost as much as $275 billion to develop and acquire through 2056, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
A modern Arleigh Burke Flight III destroyer costs about $3 billion. At $23.4 billion, USS Defiant represents nearly eight of them. Pursuing the battleship over a sceptical Congress would amount to a substantial redistribution of American investment toward the surface fleet, at a moment when the surv…
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