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Trump's Shipbuilding Quest Stalls as China Surges

Line runners handle ropes as the USS New Jersey arrives at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on March 27, 2024. (AP)

By    |   Monday, 19 January 2026 07:48 AM EST

The Trump administration's early pledge to revive and expand America's atrophied shipbuilding capacity has slipped to the back burner, even as China's naval power continues to grow in the Pacific, according to Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brent Sadler.

In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the revitalization of the U.S. industrial base and the domestic shipbuilding industry.

John Rossomando

John Rossomando is an experienced national security and counterterrorism analyst and researcher who writes for Newsmax and has been featured in numerous publications and has been consulted by numerous U.S. government agencies.

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The Trump administration's early pledge to revive and expand America's atrophied shipbuilding capacity has slipped to the back burner, even as China's naval power continues to grow in the Pacific, according to Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brent Sadler.
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