Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is trying to blame President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for a Mexican Navy tall ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, leaving two people dead.
Schumer argued a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) system may not have been operating at full capacity when the incident occurred, Fox News reported on Monday.
The Senate Minority Leader further claimed it was due to a hiring freeze at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but the U.S. Coast Guard is pushing back on his arguments.
“We know that the Trump administration has been meddling in U.S. Coast Guard operations, from staffing to command and comms, and I have the general sense of a DOGE dysfunction in parts of the
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