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Trump tax bill supercharges Coast Guard’s Arctic icebreaker fleet

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USA TODAY

Daily News, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down a part of the recent tax bill that adds new ships to the Coast Guard's fleet in the Northwest Passage, and the broader context in that region amid an ongoing cold war with China.

President Donald Trump announces new tariffs - for copper, Brazil and more.

Death tolls rise in the flooding disasters in Texas and New Mexico.

Measles was eradicated in the United States 25 years ago. Cases this year have reached a new high.

Tennessean Education Reporter Rachel Wegner looks at some of the ongoing divisions in American education 100 years after the Scopes trial.

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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, July 10th, 2025. This is USA Today is the excerpt.

0:30.9

Today, how the recent tax bill sends new ships to patrol near the Arctic. As we break down some of this

0:36.3

week's tariff news

0:37.5

and a century after the scopes trial,

0:39.7

Americans are still divided over what kids should learn.

0:45.1

The tax bill recently signed by President Donald Trump

0:47.8

will send a new fleet of icebreaker ships

0:49.9

into the edge of the melting Arctic.

0:51.8

I spoke with USA Today, national correspondent Trevor Hughes, to learn more Trevor Trevor, thanks for hopping on. Hey, good to be here. All right, so Trevor, what's in this

0:59.8

tax bill as it pertains to the Coast Guard's Arctic icebreaker fleet? Well, the Coast Guard has been

1:04.8

saying for years it needs more icebreakers and more ships that can operate in icy waters. And

1:09.3

Congress and President Trump have delivered.

1:12.1

I mean, this bill contains money for dozens of new ships, ice breakers, cutters that are equipped

1:17.8

for icy water work. This is a pretty significant expansion of the Coast Guard fleet.

1:22.8

And I guess it's fair to say that climate change has really helped make this happen, Trevor, right?

1:26.9

Yeah, I mean, help. It's maybe not the right word to use here. But yeah, that's what's driving this.

1:32.1

Climate change is opening up the ice between Alaska and Greenland. And that's known as the Northwest

1:38.4

Passage. It's a fabled passage that explorer searched for for years. And it's only open some years,

1:45.4

and only for brief times, and rarely do normal ships go through it. But as climate change melts that ice, more and more

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