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April 06, 2025

Senate Armed Services to hear from NNSA nominee

By ExchangeMonitor

The Senate Armed Services Committee will hear testimony Tuesday morning from President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.

Brandon Williams, the administration’s nominee to be undersecretary of energy for nuclear security, is one of four nominees scheduled to testify during a confirmation hearing Tuesday to start at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

Williams, a former member of Congress from New York state and a U.S. Navy veteran who was nominated by Trump in January to head the DOE office in charge of overseeing the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.  

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