Overview

• The president led the Navy’s 250th “Titans of the Sea” celebration at Naval Station Norfolk with demonstrations and ship visits involving the USS George H.W. Bush and USS Harry S. Truman.
• Addressing thousands of sailors, he said service members would receive “every last penny” despite the funding lapse and pledged across-the-board pay raises for all troops.
• Defense guidance issued before the lapse warned that pay would pause absent new appropriations, with service members continuing to work and many federal civilians furloughed.
• He promoted a $1 trillion military investment plan that includes revitalizing shipyards and expanding the Navy’s fleet with additional ships.
• The event took on a rally tone as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed for an end to “woke” policies and defended domestic deployments, after a judge temporarily blocked a Portland plan and California’s governor vowed a lawsuit.