The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday began to ink the contours of the 2021 nuclear-weapons budget fight to come, when the committee chair wondered in a hearing why the White House wants to give the Department of Energy a $2.5 billion raise over 2020 with the civilian nuclear weapons agency sitting on $8 billion in unspent appropriations. The White House’s controversial plan to to plus up the DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to $20 billion in 2021 would…
Armed Services Chair Says DoE Has Cash Pile, Questions Planned Raid on Pentagon Progs for Nuke Mods
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Dan Leone
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