On a party line 33-24 vote Friday, the House Appropriations Committee approved a 2022 civilian nuclear weapons budget that includes requested funding for proposed plutonium pit factories but withholds funds for a few smaller nuclear weapons programs. The full House had not scheduled a vote on the bill at deadline Friday for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor, but Politico reported this week the bill could hit the floor before August as part of a minibus package with other 2022 spending bills. Of the nine amendments to the energy and water bill debated in Friday's three-hour markup, none proposed changes for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) nuclear weapons programs.
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