Budget & Policy

NNSA Budget Needs Threatening Other Defense Programs, GAO Repeats

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A recent report from the Government Accountability Office repeated what some nuke-doubters in and out of Congress have been saying for a while: the bigger budget the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) says it needs to keep current and planned programs…

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