WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin held a press conference in New York City on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the legislation the administration calls the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” highlighting the appropriations the bill directed to the U.S. Coast Guard.
According to DHS, Mullin toured the Unified Command at the Javits Center, where the press conference was held, then traveled the New York harbor aboard a Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat Medium and visited USCG Station New York. The department framed the visit as a demonstration of what it called the administration’s revitalization of the Coast Guard.
According to the bill’s appropriations as detailed by DHS, the Coast Guard received $14.1 billion for cutters, $3.7 billion for aircraft, and $6 billion for infrastructure — funding DHS said totals approximately $25 billion for the service. The department described the package as the single largest investment in the Coast Guard since World War II.
“It’s great to see the investment that President Trump and his administration is making in the Coast Guard, the largest investment since World War II. In dollar amount, it’s the largest in history, investing almost $25 billion,” Mullin said in a statement. “The One Big Beautiful Bill is the most consequential bill in President Trump’s tenure, and also in recent history. This is what good government actually looks like. President Trump ran on law and order, and he’s keeping that promise — the One Big Beautiful Bill delivered on that.”
DHS said the funding is intended to support Coast Guard homeland security operations, including what it described as robust security operations for what it called historic events taking place in New York City this weekend. The department did not specify the events in its release.
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
