Lawmakers Gearing Up for Short-Term CR Without Anomaly for NNSA Weapons Program

摘要

Lawmakers are expected to return from their summer recess next week and passing a Continuing Resolution tornfund the government at the start of Fiscal Year 2015 will be among the top priorities. But lawmakers are expectedrnto strive for a short-term “clean” CR—that is, one devoid of many policy riders or funding anomalies—and thernNational Nuclear Security Administration’s weapons program won’t receive any funding exception, according tornCongressional aides. NNSA’s weapons program has in recent years received funding anomalies in previousrnstopgap funding measures, but the White House Office of Management and Budget has not pushed for anrnanomaly this year, largely due to the short duration of the expected CR—likely through early December—and arnlack of need among NNSA programs. “The bar for the short-term CR is very, very high,” one Congressional aiderntold NS&D Monitor. “It’s going to be tough to get anything through. There’s not going to be a huge appetite forrnanomalies.”