A compromise stopgap budget bill signed Friday averted a government shutdown and kept Department of Energy nuclear weapons and waste budgets at 2021 levels past Valentine’s Day.
President Joe Biden signed the measure Friday after the House and Senate swiftly passed it on Thursday. In the Senate 19 Republicans crossed party lines to approve the bill.
Under the bill the National Nuclear Security Administration would get $19.7 billion for its active nuclear weapons programs. That’s a little less than what unreconciled spending bills passed this summer by the full House and Senate Appropriations Committee would have provided.