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House Appropriators To Consider Civilian Nuclear Weapons Budget Tuesday

Monday, June 27th, 2022

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House Appropriators To Consider Civilian Nuclear Weapons Budget Tuesday

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

The House Appropriations Committee was scheduled Tuesday to vote on the first draft of the 2023 spending bill that funds civilian nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy and other agencies. Nuclear weapons programs at DoE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would receive a little less funding than requested for 2023, under the bill approved last week by the House energy and water development subcommittee. Year-over year, the bill would raise the NNSA’s budget by more than half…

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