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BARGERSVILLE, Ind. — Sen. Todd Young settled into a booth at a Belgian-style brewhouse in a suburb just south of Indianapolis to watch Canada square off against Bosnia and Herzegovina—a little bleary-eyed after a storm-stricken flight back from Washington left him in Columbus, Ohio.
His flight got redirected to Columbus after midnight, where he had to stay overnight. He boarded a flight this morning to Indianapolis, where he would spend just one night at home before jetting to New Jersey Saturday for the Brazil vs. Morocco match where he would headline a fundraiser for a Republican colleague that Young declined to name.
Nothing could keep Young, a co-chair of the Congressional Soccer Caucus, perhaps the Senate’s biggest soccer fan and likely its only member who can score off a scissors kick, from watching the tournament.
On this afternoon, the second of the tournament, he was here to watch a game with POLITICO and discuss the geopolitics of the day.
“One of the things I’m hopeful for is a really good showing by the United States, so that the game of soccer in the U.S. can use this as a springboard or a catalyst to continue to grow quite a bit into the next decade or so,” Young said.
He had blocked off tonight’s game to watch the U.S.’s opening match versus Paraguay with his soccer-playing daughter.
Young is also one of the key Republicans who is using the World Cup to squeeze Democrats on extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as it expires today. Democrats have refused to support even a short-term extension of the law ever since President Donald Trump nominated Bill Pulte, a political ally with no national security experience, to serve as acting DNI.
“It would be a lot of finger-pointing,” Young said of a potential domestic security lapse. “You should just pull out every stop right now to make sure that there are no problems.”
When Canada went down 1-0 in the 21st minute, he was less interested in the fact that our allies were losing — “they’re very close allies and important trading partners, and increasingly good at soccer, a new export for that country,” he told me — and more interested in the quality of the goal itself.
He dialed in on a replay of Jovo Lukić’s set piece goal.
“Hell of a goal: slip header, near-bar run,” said Young, nursing a Belgian-style blonde.
As halftime approached, our conversation turned to 2028, and the fact that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a fellow Republican, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, were expected to share box seats.
“Oh, that’s good for the country,” Young said, “Good for Marco. And good for Gavin.”
Young, who has spent a significant amount of time thinking about the GOP’s future, was less enthusiastic at answering a question about who might be at the top of his party’s own ticket in 2028. Was he more Team Rubio or Team Vice President JD Vance, a fellow former Midwestern senator with whom he built a relationship before Vance’s ascension?
“Oh, shit,” Young said. “I’m Team USA, brother. I’m Team USA.”
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A computer-generated image of an Arctic Security Cutter is seen in this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard in February 2026. (U.S. Coast Guard image)
The U.S. Coast Guard will base two new icebreakers in Kodiak and one in Seward, it announced Thursday.
The first two ships are expected in Kodiak in 2028, and the third ship is expected in Seward in the early 2030s, said Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska.
The new ships are part of an 11-ship medium icebreaker flotilla approved by Congress last year as part of a $25 billion Coast Guard funding package.
The Coast Guard hasn’t yet announced where it will station the other eight ships. The Alaska announcement is the first nationally and was at least partially intended to give the new homeports time to prepare housing and infrastructure.
While Alaska cities and the three members of the state’s congressional delegation have repeatedly urged the Coast Guard to station icebreakers in the state closest to Arctic ice, Coast Guard officials have voiced concerns about the state’s housing and childcare shortages.
Last year, the Coast Guard commissioned the refurbished icebreaker Storis in Juneau, its official homeport. Since that commissioning, the Storis has rarely been in Juneau because the state’s capital city has yet to break ground on $300 million in needed shoreside infrastructure.
Kodiak and Seward will need additional housing, utility infrastructure and new piers.
The three new ships and the Storis have the potential to bring a significant number of new residents to Kodiak, Seward and Juneau.
“This will be — an estimate on all four Coast Guard cutters coming — probably an additional 1,000 Coast Guard members, maybe even more with maintainers on the shoreside, plus their families,” Sullivan said. “It’s really exciting.”
With more people and ships comes more economic activity, creating a “virtuous cycle,” he said.
“The more ships we’re getting, the more we’re increasing our shipbuilding and heavy maintenance capacity in places like Seward, in places like Ketchikan, in places like Kodiak,” he said. Increased shipbuilding requires more people and more workers who require more shops and services.
“It is considerable, what comes next,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who held a news conference with Sullivan on Thursday. “It is not just about making sure that there are piers for these ships to come alongside. It is making sure that there is housing in our communities, it is making sure that we have childcare, it is making sure that our schools are there to meet our students.”
On Friday, the Coast Guard took a step in that direction by announcing that it will build 20 new three-bedroom homes and 10 new four-bedroom homes in Kodiak, plus a new child development center and play area.
That construction project is expected to be complete in 2028, the Coast Guard said.
“The Coast Guard is accelerating infrastructure planning to support Arctic Security Cutters homeported in Seward and Kodiak. This includes pier and waterfront construction, as well as personnel support facilities and housing,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said by email.
The new icebreakers intended for Alaska are among 11 “Arctic Security Cutters” ordered by the federal government earlier this year. The 11 ships include two different designs, and the first four ships — two from each design — are being built in Finland, with delivery expected by 2028. The remaining ships would be built in American shipyards whose workers would be trained in Finland.
Three other heavy icebreakers, suitable for work in Antarctica as well as at the North Pole, are planned, with the first under construction in the United States.
Those three ships were scheduled to be based in Seattle, but a dredging project at the base there has since been scaled back, and there may no longer be room for those ships.
A new homeport for the heavy icebreakers has not yet been announced.