Budget & Policy

Senate Approves Two-Month Stopgap Budget Into FY20

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The National Nuclear Security Administration will keep its 2019 budget for a little less than two months of fiscal 2020, under a stopgap spending bill awaiting President Trump’s signature at deadline Friday for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor.
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