民主党人瞄准特朗普的战舰计划，试图削减其标志性项目在去年圣诞节前三天，特朗普总统站在两架画架之间，展示未来核武装战舰的渲染图，这些舰艇将成为新一级“特朗普级”战列舰的一部分。
Democrats target Trump’s warship as they look to slash his signature projects Three days before last Christmas, President Trump stood between easels with renderings of futuristic, nuclear-armed warships that would be part of a new class of “Trump-class” battleships.
他在棕榈滩海湖庄园金碧辉煌的起居室里，一架古董施坦威三角钢琴前表示，这些舰艇将配备激光武器、电磁轨道炮和高超音速导弹，并将在“约两年半”内建成。“从未有过类似的建造，”特朗普说。国会山上的民主党人希望永远别有这种建造。
In front of an antique Steinway baby grand piano in the gold-draped living room of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, he said the ships would bristle with lasers, electromagnetic railguns and hypersonic missiles and would be built in “about 2½ years.”“There has never been anything built like them,” Trump said. Democrats on Capitol Hill hope there never is.
海军此后表示，这款战舰将成为其舰队中最昂贵的舰艇，它是民主党人在特朗普那份高达1.5万亿美元的历史性五角大楼预算请求中重点瞄准的目标之一。据议员透露，民主党人在上周中期选举大获全胜后，正在一个不得人心的对伊朗战争和国内高物价的背景下，向总统的宠儿项目开火。
The warship, which the Navy has since said would be the most expensive in its fleet, is one of the Democrats’ prime targets in Trump’s historic $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request. Democrats, fresh off sweeping wins in last week’s midterm elections, are taking aim at the president’s pet projects amid an unpopular war with Iran and high prices at home, according to lawmakers.
“我们需要高端生存系统和低成本消耗型能力的适当组合，而不是总统提议的核动力战列舰舰队，”众议员亚当·史密斯（民主党-华盛顿州）说，他明年有望出任众议院军事委员会主席。
“We need an appropriate mix of high-end survivable systems and lower-cost attritable capabilities, not a fleet of nuclear-powered battleships as proposed by the president,” said Rep. Adam Smith (D., Wash.), the likely House Armed Services Committee chair next year.
民主党人还想利用其筹码推动政策变更，包括从年度国防授权法案中删除将国防部正式更名为战争部的条款，政府官员自特朗普于2025年9月签署行政命令以来一直使用这一名称。
Democrats also want to use their leverage to make policy changes, including stripping language from the annual defense-policy bill that would formally change the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War, a name administration officials have used since Trump signed an executive order in September 2025.
参议院军事委员会成员、参议员蒂姆·凯恩（民主党-弗吉尼亚州）周二称这一更名“幼稚可笑”。“任何人与这事扯上关系都应该感到羞耻，”他说。
Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Tuesday called the name change “sophomoric.”“Anybody should be embarrassed to be associated with that,” he said.
更名条款已被写入今年《国防授权法案》的众议院版本和参议院版本，该法案自20世纪60年代初以来每年都会通过。众参两院军事委员会成员目前正在努力，在年底前制定出统一版本的法案，新近获胜的民主党人利用其筹码，要求共和党谈判代表删减部分条款，例如部门更名条款。
The name change has made it into both the House and Senate versions of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, legislation that has passed every year since the early 1960s. Members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees now are working to create a unified version of the bill before the end of the year with newly victorious Democrats using their leverage to demand that GOP negotiators pare back some provisions, like the departmental name change.
总统的另一项重大国防优先事项——“金顶”系统，即一个包含太空拦截器在内、环绕全国的精密导弹和无人机防御盾，同样面临阻力。凯恩此前曾表示，该项目可能会被“缩减规模”，但参议员们将“努力寻找资金，并分阶段推进”。战略与国际研究中心导弹防御专家汤姆·卡拉科表示，该项目也可能进行重新包装。他指出，许多旨在保卫关岛——美国在西太平洋的领土——以及美国本土免受巡航导弹袭击的努力，是在拜登政府时期启动的。
Another one of the president’s top defense priorities, the “Golden Dome,” an elaborate missile-and-drone shield around the country that includes interceptors in space, also faces headwinds. Kaine has previously said the project could get “scoped,” but that senators would “work to find the funding and we’ll phase it in.”The project could also get a rebrand, said Tom Karako, a missile-defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He noted that many efforts to defend Guam, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, and the U.S. mainland from cruise missiles were started during the Biden administration.
情况更加复杂的是，五角大楼已要求国会批准三个单独的国防支出方案，构成其1.5万亿美元的预算请求——即1.1万亿美元的标准预算、单独的3500亿美元协调法案方案，以及用于支付伊朗战争和国民警卫队部署费用的670亿美元请求。
Complicating matters, the Pentagon has asked Congress to approve three separate defense spending packages that make up its $1.5 trillion request—a $1.1 trillion standard budget, a separate $350 billion reconciliation package and a $67 billion request to pay for the Iran war and National Guard deployments.
将预算捆绑进不同方案被视为在共和党掌控白宫和国会两院之际，实施大规模武器投资的一种方式。协调法案在参议院仅需简单多数即可通过，而标准拨款法案需要60票，意味着它需要两党支持。
Bundling the budget into different packages was seen as a way to make a large weapons investment while Republicans held control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Reconciliation needs a simple majority to pass the Senate, while a standard appropriations bill needs 60 votes, meaning it would need bipartisan support.
国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯自担任国防部长以来与民主党人接触有限，并在公开听证会上与他们针锋相对，如今却需要他们的支持来推动其首要任务。
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has limited contact with Democrats since becoming defense secretary and has been combative with them in open testimony, now needs their support for his top priorities.
“我们经常有文职领导和军装领导在国会山露面，”赫格塞斯周二在五角大楼举行的简报会上说。
“We’ve got civilian leaders and uniformed leaders up on Capitol Hill all the time,” Hegseth said during a Tuesday briefing at the Pentagon.
自上周民主党在中期选举中获胜以来，赫格塞斯加大了呼吁国会通过和解法案的力度，他表示该法案将进行“跨代投资”以重建军队。“连一个民主党人都不会投赞成票，”史密斯谈到和解法案时说。
Since Democrats’ midterm victories last week, Hegseth has upped his calls for Congress to pass the reconciliation package, which he said would make a “generational investment” to rebuild the military. “Not a single solitary Democrat is going to vote for that,” Smith said of reconciliation.
这艘战列舰一直有批评者。海军今年早些时候表示，首舰成本将超过170亿美元。国会预算办公室估计成本为230亿美元，后续舰艇平均每艘成本180亿美元。相比之下，海军计划明年接收的福特级航母“约翰·F·肯尼迪”号成本仅略超130亿美元。海军在五角大楼例行的1.1万亿美元预算请求中，申请了10亿美元用于启动战列舰建造工作。
The battleship has always had its critics. The Navy earlier this year said the first one would cost more than $17 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimated it would cost $23 billion, with additional ships costing an average of $18 billion each. By comparison, the USS John F. Kennedy, the Ford-class aircraft carrier that the Navy is scheduled to receive next year, cost just over $13 billion. The Navy requested $1 billion to begin work on the battleship as part of the Pentagon’s standard $1.1 trillion request.
支持新军舰的人士认为，海军现役的“阿利·伯克”级驱逐舰没有空间容纳更多导弹发射管和现代武器，如高超音速武器和电子武器。“它现在看起来像一只塞满坚果的大花栗鼠，因为它负担过重，”代理海军部长曹宏5月在众议院军事委员会表示。“这就是为什么我们需要一艘大型战斗舰。”海军一直处于考虑一种新型更大驱逐舰的早期阶段，但特朗普提出的战列舰规模是其两倍多，并包含海军此前已放弃的未经验证的电磁轨道炮技术，该技术利用电力将弹丸推进数十英里，速度高达音速的七倍。
Those backing the new warship argue that the Navy’s existing Arleigh Burke-class destroyers don’t have the space for more missile-launching tubes and modern weapons, such as hypersonic and electronic weapons. “It looks like a big chipmunk with a mouthful of nuts right now because it’s so overburdened,” acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told the House Armed Services Committee in May. “That’s why we need a large combatant.”The Navy had been in the early stages of considering a new, larger destroyer, but the battleship proposed by Trump is more than double the size and includes unproven railgun technology, using electricity to propel a projectile dozens of miles at up to seven times the speed of sound, that the Navy had previously abandoned.
“这是世界历史上最昂贵的活靶子，”众议员塞思·莫尔顿（民主党-马萨诸塞州）在6月的一次听证会上说。“这艘战列舰是个浪费钱的烂摊子。这个面子工程将会消失。”参议员乔尼·恩斯特（共和党-爱荷华州）表示，赫格塞斯掌管五角大楼“绝对”会让通过伊朗战争拨款以及整个国防部预算变得更难。众议院民主党人周二未能在跛脚鸭会期推进弹劾赫格塞斯的计划，但预计明年他们成为多数党后将再次尝试。
“This is the most expensive sitting duck in world history,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.) said during a June hearing. “This battleship is a boondoggle. This vanity project is going to vanish.”Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) said Hegseth being in charge at the Pentagon “absolutely” makes it harder to pass funding for the Iran war and Defense Department writ large. House Democrats on Tuesday failed to move forward on plans to impeach Hegseth in the lame-duck session, but they are expected to try again next year when they are in the majority.
如果立法者无法达成预算协议，根据一项为期一年的持续决议，五角大楼开支可能被冻结在9000亿美元以下，这将阻止军方在新项目上花钱。
If lawmakers are unable to strike a budget deal, Pentagon spending could be frozen at under $900 billion under a yearlong continuing resolution that would prevent the military from spending money on new projects.
特朗普政府官员、五角大楼审计长朱尔斯·赫斯特表示，该部门正与国会委员会合作，“寻找在调节法案和基本拨款之间平衡需求的最佳方式”。
A Trump administration official, Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst, said the department was working with congressional committees “on the best way to balance requirements between reconciliation and base funding.”
“我并不排除我们能达成协议的可能性——拨款委员会的人会在找机会达成协议，”赫斯特说。“拨款委员会比国会任何其他委员会都更擅长达成妥协。”一些五角大楼的优先事项将在新多数党那里找到友好的听众。赫斯特表示，官员们正在寻找方法，将弹药和“金穹顶”等关键工作的资金从调节法案转移到标准基本预算中。
“I’m not counting out that we can reach a deal—the appropriators are going to be looking for one,” Hurst said. “The appropriators have more practice at reaching compromise than any other committee in Congress.”Some Pentagon priorities will find a friendly audience with the new majority. Hurst said officials were looking for ways to shift funding for critical efforts, such as munitions and Golden Dome, from the reconciliation package to the standard base budget.
自伊朗战争开始以来，五角大楼已消耗了数千枚弹药，但补充库存被证明很困难。副国防部长史蒂夫·费因伯格已与几家公司达成协议，在未来七年内购买数千枚弹药，但国会尚未为大多数协议批准任何资金。
The Pentagon has depleted thousands of munitions since the beginning of the Iran war, but replenishing stockpiles has proven difficult. Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg has struck deals with several companies to buy thousands of munitions over the next seven years, but Congress hasn’t approved any funding for most of those agreements.