Senator Rob Portman says the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center could see a loss in funding from President Biden's budget proposal. The White House requested $981 million to modify the Abrams Tank , which is down from the $1.4 billion dollars that the Trump administration put into their budget in 2020.  Portman says he is disappointed that the President supports cutting over $400 million dollars to modernize the Abrams Tank.   The plan in the last defense budget was to upgrade 89 M1 Abrams Tanks and to increase the rate of production of new tanks at the JSMC.  Talks will continue until a final decision is reached on any cuts to the budget. 

Task Force Lima was set to get a plan in front of legislators about the Joint Systems Manufacture Center, until that was changed.

The group had been planning a drive-in to Columbus to show state politicians the importance of the tank plant and to keep advocating for it. Due to the Coronavirus those plans have been postponed. Task Force had drawn out and sent out surveys to the people they liked to invite, to see when to hold the event. That includes 190 suppliers in Ohio that work with JSMC. Mayor David Berger felt hearing from them would have be more impactful.