
The House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee approved the nuclear-weapons parts of the chamber’s 2021 National Defense Authorization Act on Monday in a brief markup that sets the stage for full Committee action on July 1. It took only about 15 minutes, without debate or amendments, for the panel to advance its portions of the annual defense policy bill that sets spending caps for Pentagon programs, plus nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy. In doing so, the…