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Amendment to Senate NDAA Would Lesson Proposed Pentagon Influence Over NNSA Budget

Monday, July 6th, 2020

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The Senate last week adopted language that would scale back, but not eliminate, some of the new oversight and influence the chamber’s Armed Services Committee proposed to give the Pentagon over civilian nuclear weapons budgets via the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. On Thursday, the Senate unanimously adopted an amendment from Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), which strikes provisions from the annual defense policy bill that would have required the secretary of defense, through the joint…

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