
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration would get every penny it sought in fiscal year 2020 and then some, under a Senate Appropriations Committee bill that would give the agency just under $17 billion: some $425 million above the Trump administration’s request. Where a House spending package passed in June would throttle back the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) work on next-generation, nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Senate committee’s bill would fund the effort at the requested level.…