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Lawmakers press Coast Guard on shore-side infrastructure backlog and unsafe housing conditions
Summary
Members pressed Admiral Lundy about a multibillion-dollar shore-side infrastructure backlog, examples of hazardous housing for service members, and a perceived mismatch between administrative aircraft purchases and housing spending.
Ranking Member Salud Carbajal and other members told the subcommittee that shore-side infrastructure and housing for Coast Guard personnel are in urgent need of funding and oversight, using specific examples to press Admiral Kevin Lundy for action.
Carbajal cited GAO estimates and local examples, saying that the Coast Guard’s shore-side infrastructure backlog “is actually much higher” than the service’s estimate and that “a member of the coast guard recently fell through the floor of the coast guard's…
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