Funding to oversee the weapons’ safety could lapse due to an ongoing government shutdown, the energy secretary has said
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has cautioned that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) could run out of funding to monitor the country’s nuclear arsenal within eight days because of an ongoing government shutdown. He said operations would be suspended once the money is gone.
The US federal government has stopped working for the first time in almost seven years, after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on a spending bill in the Senate.
On Friday, the Senate failed to pass either a Republican bill or a…
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