The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed an omnibus budget that would give the Energy Department about $30 billion for the remainder of fiscal 2017: a roughly 3-percent raise from the last budget year, but more than 2 percent less overall than the Obama administration requested for the agency more than a year ago.
Within the total, DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would get nearly $13 billion, while the Office of Environmental Management (EM) would receive some $6.4 billion. For NNSA, that is a roughly 3-percent increase from the 2016 appropriation and about what the Obama administration requested. EM would get about 3 percent more than in 2016, and almost 5 percent more than requested.
The bill now moves to the Senate where, if approved, it is expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump before Friday, when the weeklong stopgap spending measure now funding the federal government expires.
The ExchangeMonitor maintains detailed spending breakdowns for both the NNSA and EM.
