Repeal the Jones Act
What the document says“working with Congress to repeal the Jones Act.”
The Jones Act requires ships traveling between American ports to be American-built, owned and crewed. The essay says shipbuilding could be the envy of the world in a free market but that the maritime lobby prefers what it calls a quiet, cozy existence on the dole while harming consumers and national security, and asks the Administration to grant exemptions unilaterally wherever allowed in the meantime.
What the document actually says“working with Congress to repeal the Jones Act.”
Work with Congress to repeal the Jones Act.
A 1920 law says ships between American ports must be American built and crewed. That makes shipping cost more. This essay wants the law repealed.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates touches the Jones Act, its coastwise trade requirements or waivers from them. The nearest maritime document is the notice of April 15, 2026 continuing the national emergency that lets the Secretary of Homeland Security regulate the anchorage and movement of Russian affiliated vessels to United States ports, which concerns foreign vessels in a sanctions context, not domestic shipping between American ports. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.