President Donald Trump last week announced a major push to improve the shipbuilding industry in the United States to better support the Navy, but top administration officials testified before Congress this week about the challenges that initiative faces.

Trump said last week in his speech to a joint session of Congress that the U.S. “used to make so many ships. We don’t make them any more very much, but we’re going to make them very fast, very soon. It will have a huge impact.”

However, Brett Seidle, the Navy’s acting acquisition chief, said this week that U.S. shipbuilders face numerous challenges, including “supply chain disruptions,” the “atrophy of our manufacturing industrial base,” and “inconsistent industry investment across the shipbuilding industrial base.”

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