Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Obama administration to scrap its plan to move an elite Coast Guard team out of New York Harbor. The plan is to consolidate Marine Safety And Security Teams from five cities, and then transfer them to Boston as a cost-cutting measure.
Obama Plans to Pull Elite Coast Guard Unit from New York
Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Obama administration to scrap its plan to move an elite Coast Guard team out of New York Harbor. The plan is to consolidate Marine Safety And Security Teams from five cities, and then transfer them to Boston as a cost-cutting measure.
The WBNG news writes:
Senator Schumer is firing back at a plan to consolidate Coast Guard security teams.
The Obama administration plans to move elite security teams to different ports, including one from the New York Harbor, which would head up to Boston.
That team has been stationed in New York since the September 11th attacks.
The ships are manned by specially trained personnel to patrol waterways and respond to security threats.Schumer says the proposal would also eliminate security forces in Anchorage, Kings Bay Georgia, New Orleans and San Francisco.
It’s all in an effort to consolidate.
But Schumer argues it’s an unsafe, and foolish cost-cutting measure.
