BLUMENTHAL LEADS CALL FOR TRUMP TO REVERSE COSTLY DIRECTIVE RESTORING OUTDATED TECHNOLOGY ON AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today called on Donald Trump to reverse a recent national security memorandum directing the Department of Defense to replace electromagnetic catapults with steam-powered systems on future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. In a letter signed by fellow members of the Armed Services Committee-U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Tim Kaine (D-VA)-Blumenthal and the Senators raised concerns that the President's costly and ill-conceived redesigns of aircraft carriers would endanger servicemembers an...