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Consider moving the Coast Guard to the Defense Department

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 134. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Consider moving the Coast Guard to the Defense Department

The document says “shouldWho acts: Congress, PresidentHow: legislationp. 134 in the PDF
What the document says

“Alternatively, USCG should be moved to DOD for all purposes.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 134

The chapter raises moving the Coast Guard out of Homeland Security and into the Defense Department as an alternative option. It separately asks that the Coast Guard fleet be sized for great-power competition, that it focus on home waters and the Pacific to counter Chinese influence, and that personnel dismissed for refusing the COVID vaccine be brought back with time in service credited.

What the document actually says

“Alternatively, USCG should be moved to DOD for all purposes.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 134
That sentence, in plain words

Or else the Coast Guard should move to the Defense Department for good.

What this is about

The Coast Guard guards American waters. It sits inside the homeland department now. The book says it could move to the defense department instead.

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