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Top-lines from the NNSA Budget request released today. The request for Weapons Activities - where most #nuclear weapons $$ is - is up $1B to $16.5B from last year's request, or 6%, & up $500M or 3% from the amount Congress actually appropriated. #FY23Budget
Notably, we can't compare it to what the NNSA projected last year they would request this year. They are officially required to include such projections in the budget request BUT last year they didn't do it. (Don't know if they will include it this year, bet they won't.)
That is important because, for several years running, the NNSA budget for Weapons Activities grew by more than it was expected to grow. Then in FY21 it jumped MASSIVELY when Trump intervened personally to give NNSA extra billions after he was lobbied by nuclear hawks in Congress.
