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The appropriations package funds financial relief for individuals and small businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as defense infrastructure companies like Bath Iron Works make for the Navy.

Read Article BATH — President Trump capsized two bills — a $74 billion defense policy bill and a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill — last week that include provisions for Bath Iron Works. Trump surprised lawmakers on both sides of the aisle when he released a video on Twitter Tuesday calling the $900 billion COVID-19 spending bill “a disgrace.” The over 5,000-page bill, approved by Congress, funds unemployment benefits, eviction protections and other emergency aid, including $600 dir...

Trump vetoes defense bill that has BIW benefits, setting up possible override vote The president has called for the bill to include limits on social media companies he claims are biased against him – and to strip out language that allows for the renaming of military bases that honor Confederate leaders. By Times Record staff and wire reports Share The USS Daniel Inouye coasted down the Kennebec River this month on its way to at-sea trials. The defense policy bill vetoed by President Trump o...

Biden’s Budget  In the absence of news, we’re sticking by our way-too-early predictions of flat defense spending, at best — especially with Congress on the verge of passing another coronavirus stimulus package, this one totalling nearly $1 trillion. If Republicans retain control of the Senate, expect lesser cuts. If Democrats take control after two early-January Georgia runoffs, expect deeper cuts as they focus on priorities other than defense.  In the meantime, the Trump administration...

Latest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer sails from Bath Iron Works for sea trials The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), which left BIW Wednesday, is the first ship to sail from the Bath shipyard in two years. Author: Beth Brogan (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 5:16 PM EST December 16, 2020 Updated: 5:12 AM EST December 17, 2020 BATH, Maine — Two years after the destroyer sailed from Bath Iron Works down the Kennebec River, the future USS Daniel In...