We're opening up the Philadelphia shipyard, once a great yard, now it was, it was a long time ago decommissioned, but now it's reopening. Working with the Navy and working with private companies. The record setting defense bill I signed last week authorized $26 billion to build new ships, including destroyers and various others. We already have a lot of submarines, as you know, under construction. We're building a lot of submarines, I tell you. To be exact, we have right now 15 submarines under construction or ready to start. (11:59–12:10)
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