U.S. senators make budget plea for Coast Guard

Members of the Coast Guard secure the Emergency Towing System. (Zoe Sobel/ KUCB)
Both of Alaska’s U.S. senators wrote the White House budget director Wednesday asking him to spare the Coast Guard from the budget ax.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170308-02.mp3
According to the Washington Post and other news outlets, President Donald Trump plans to reduce funding for the Coast Guard by nearly 12 percent in his budget request to Congress.
Nearly two dozen U.S. senators signed