
The just-announced budget caps deal provides $2.5 billion more in base defense spending than the 2020 budget the House has already approved, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would need a 25% share of the extra funding to reach the White House's preferred civilian nuclear-weapons budget. To get the money, the semi-autonomous Department of Energy agency will either have to compete with the entire Department of Defense, get the money from elsewhere within DoE as the Trump administration proposed…