How British construction would strengthen the US treaty offer

How would the American opening treaty offer change if Britain were building its largest postwar capital-ship designs?

The United States would press harder for agreement because matching Britain required a difficult new congressional funding campaign.

A British commitment to the largest postwar battleships and battlecruisers would make the American opening position more urgent. The United States would need a treaty that stopped construction or a new funding law capable of sustaining its response. Several influential American naval advocates who might have secured that money were no longer available after the First World War. The bargaining problem depended on whether Congress would finance the alternative to agreement as much as on tonnage arithmetic.