"The culprit here isn’t the Jones Act, but another protectionist shipbuilding law that requires Naval and Coast Guard ships to be built in U.S. shipyards. It’s possible to waive this requirement via presidential authorization[0], but there hasn’t appeared to be much interest in this."

[0] https://sixtydegreesnorth.substack.com/p/yes-the-us-coast-gu...

"In practice Congress would need to support such a plan by appropriating funds for the project."