As part of a roughly $20 billion 2022 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Biden administration last Friday sought about 12 percent less for civilian nuclear weapons programs than the former Trump administration forecast would be necessary for the coming fiscal year. Overall, the 2022 spending request for the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency for the budget year that begins October 1 is about flat with the final projection the Trump administration made in 2021, according to a Friday document from the White House Office of Management and Budget. In the Biden administration’s 2022 request, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Weapons Activities budget would rise to roughly $15.5 billion, which is about 1 percent higher than the 2021 appropriation of $15.3 billion, but roughly 12 percent less than the $15.9 billion the Trump administration thought the account would need in 2022, according to the Future-Years Nuclear Security Program published in NNSA’s 2021 budget request.
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