Lawmakers slash funding for Marine Corps’ long-range fires development December 23, 2020 Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit drive a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) toward their firing point after conducting an amphibious landing from the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20). (photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser/U.S. Marine Corps) “The logic here doesn’t make much sense,” Wisconsin Republican Rep. Michael Gallagher, a House Armed Services Committee member, said in a statement to Defense News. “This year’s spending package increases funding where the Marine Corps sought reductions and makes reductions where they sought increases. If the Commandant doesn’t have the resources to implement his planning guidance — a strategy that has bipartisan support — it’s impossible to actually implement the National Defense Strategy.”