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Nuke Missiles Win Bigger Budget Boosts in Compromise DoD Spending Bill

Friday, September 14th, 2018

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Nuke Missiles Win Bigger Budget Boosts in Compromise DoD Spending Bill

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The House and Senate this week sent a multiagency spending bill to President Trump's desk that boosts the Department of Energy's budget for nuclear warhead modernization, and reached a compromise on a separate spending bill that would accelerate development of the missiles that will carry those weapons.Congress overwhelmingly approved the warhead funding as part of a multiagency spending bill, called a minibus, that included Department of Energy's 2019 budget. The funding for the missiles is part of a separate minibus that…

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