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NNSA, DoE Selling Softer Take on Budget Drama That Could Cost the Navy a Submarine

NNSA, DoE Selling Softer Take on Budget Drama That Could Cost the Navy a Submarine
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is selling its own version of intra-DoE skirmish that ended in January with President Trump approving a much larger raise for the civilian nuclear-weapons agency than expected — and they’re getting buy-in on Capitol Hill. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the NNSA, testified here Wednesday that the semi-autonomous DoE agency’s $20 billion 2021 budget request — 25% above the 2020 budget and billions more than the agency thought only a year ago it would need…

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