DoE Nuke Boss Fired While on Leave; Energy Secretary Tracked Her for Months

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Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette kept close tabs on then-National Nuclear SecurityAdministration boss Lisa Gordon-Hagerty for months, sending chaperones to her meetings withCongress and monitoring her personal calendar before abruptly demanding her resignation lastweek, a source said.It was a dramatic end to a year of strife between the two, who clashed over the size of theNational Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) budget and provided the Washington nuclearpolicy establishment with the latest experimental data about exactly how much autonomy theNNSA and its nuclear weapons programs have from the broader DoE’s nuclear-cleanup andenergy programs.