The 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have been trapped at sea for eight months with rationed food, no fresh supplies, broken toilets, and zero days off. When asked whether the deployment had gone on too long, the President said "no, not nearly long enough" — and walked away. That's not leadership. That's contempt for the people he commands.
Congress has the power to demand accountability here. The Navy base in Bahrain that supplied this ship was destroyed on the first day of a war this administration blundered into, and nobody in the executive branch is lifting a finger to fix the supply chain. Meanwhile, the President is ordering billion-dollar carrier redesigns based on old war movies and forcing the Navy to rip out working electromagnetic catapult systems and replace them with obsolete steam technology. Our sailors can't get a decent meal, and the Commander-in-Chief is playing interior decorator with warships.
Hold hearings. Demand a timeline for rotating this crew home. Use every oversight tool available to force answers from the Defense Department about how this was allowed to happen. These sailors signed up to serve their country — they deserve a Congress that fights for them when their own Commander-in-Chief won't.
First sent on August 16 by Jeffrey Barlow
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