
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee would deliver an emphatic “no” to the Trump administration’s 2020 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, if a $15.9 billion nuclear-weapons budget unveiled Tuesday becomes law. The proposed National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget would if signed give the semi-autonomous DoE branch around $15.9 billion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1: a year-over-year funding increase of about 4.5% that would be some 3.5% less than the White House’s…