Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about how the U.S. Navy may build boats outside of the U.S.

In what might be the most overt and stunning turnaround, when it comes to Trump's claims that he would reshore good-paying

blue-collar jobs and create manufacturing jobs. Trump's now fired Secretary of the Navy, announced

that the U.S. Navy was looking into building its ships overseas.

The secretary was at a media roundtable at Sea Airspace, 2026 and D.C.

Shortly thereafter, the Secretary of the Navy became the former Secretary of the Navy.

But that probably has to do with something else, because the idea of outsourcing shipbuilding isn't limited to him. The now former secretary's statement follows a comment from the

chief of naval operations about a week earlier at an Atlantic Council conference when he said, quote,

I don't see any future where I don't leverage foreign shipyards and foreign country skills and

capacity to help me get up on plan with my shipbuilding initiatives. The CNO's comments seem limited to repairs and maintenance

and construction of auxiliary ships. The Secretary of the Navy's comments don't. It looks like the main

contenders for foreign shipbuilders would be Japan and South Korea.

Both countries have already had shipbuilding companies successfully work on MRO contracts for the U.S. Navy.

Those are maintenance, repair, and operations contracts.

They stop short of building the Navy ships.

Trump is asking for $1.5 trillion in the fiscal year 2027 Department of Defense budget.

65.8 billion of that would be for shipbuilding. It certainly appears that large amounts of that cash would be sent overseas. But wait, I thought trade deficits were bad, and I thought we were going

to build a great golden fleet and create a bunch of jobs here at home.

That disappeared faster than the Doge checks and the tariff rebate checks he promised.

Okay, so the obvious question is, what was it all for? Why did prices go up if it wasn't to create

American jobs?

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