September 14, 2025

White House seeks $3.93B CR anomaly for Columbia-class sub

By Staff Reports

The White House has requested Congress include $3.93 billion for procurement of a Columbia-class submarine in its consideration of a potential continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown.

“Without this anomaly, the deployment plans for future [nuclear ballistic missile submarines] could result in delays in a day-to-day slip for the program,” the Donald Trump administration writes in a list of requested CR anomalies submitted to Congress and obtained by Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily.

Facing a looming government shutdown deadline Sept. 30, the White House’s list requests that a likely stopgap funding measure also allows the Navy to enter into a new multi-year procurement deal for up to five Columbia-class subs and includes authority allowing new funding to be spent to ensure the Virginia-class submarine program remains on schedule.

A CR will be required to avoid a lapse in government funding with Congress having yet to pass final appropriations bills negotiated between the House and Senate with just weeks left before the end of the fiscal year.

On the request for authority to enter into a new Columbia-class multi-year contract under the CR, the White House specifies that “the Secretary of the Navy may use up to three years of incremental funding for each submarine to make payments under the contract.”

For the Virginia-class submarine anomaly, the White House states that “language is needed [in a CR] to provide DoD with new start authority and authority to obligate funding in the ‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’ account at a rate for operations necessary to pay for the federal government’s responsible portion of contract overruns in the FY 2016 Virginia-class submarine program [and]…overruns in the FY 2018 Virginia Class submarine program”

“Without the anomaly, funding would not be available for this purpose during the period of the CR,” the White House writes.

Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily first published a version of this article.