
After idling for half the 2022 fiscal year at last year’s budget level, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would get some $26.65 billion to see it through Sept. 30, under an omnibus spending package that at deadline Friday awaited only President Biden’s signature. That’s a 4.5% raise year-over-year that’s 3% more than requested for the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency that maintains and modernizes bombs and warheads. Biden said he would sign the bill. The omnibus, which cleared…