
House and Senate appropriators on Sunday agreed to extend 2023 budgets for federal agencies for about another month-and-a-half, into March, while they continue work on permanent budget bills for the 2024 fiscal year, now in its second quarter. Under the latest continuing resolution, the third such stopgap of the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and other agencies will now keep their 2023 budgets through March…