This week, almost halfway through the fiscal year that started Oct. 1, congressional appropriators announced they would pass a final 2024 budget for the Department of Energy and other agencies next week.
In the meantime, to avoid a partial government shutdown on Friday, when funding for DOE and other agencies was set to expire, Congress on Thursday passed yet another short-term continuing resolution that will largely hold federal agencies to their 2023 budgets.
On Thursday, the Senate approved the stopgap by a vote of Thursday 77-13 and the House by a vote of 320-99.
President Joe Biden (D) said Thursday he would sign the week-long spending bill.
Under the continuing resolution, which would be the fourth since fiscal year 2024 began, the Office of Environment Management will receive the annualized equivalent of an $8 billion budget for cleanup of shuttered nuclear-weapon production sites.
That is about $300 million less than the House approved in its full-year 2024 spending bill and nearly $500 million less than the Senate Appropriations committee approved in a separate 2024 spending bill.
