Trump Orders Navy to Spend Billions of Dollars Undoing Years of Work

President Donald Trump is about to waste billions of dollars to put old-fashioned technology on aircraft carriers. Trump signed a memorandum Thursday directing the U.S. Navy to start installing old-fashioned steam catapults on its aircraft carriers, instead of electromagnetic launchers, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal. The memo directs the Navy to redesign the Doris Miller, the newest Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, and all remaining ships. The first three ships, the Ford,…