UPDATE: DOE chickens out, hides in shadows and won’t today release budget details, tells taxpayers to TAKE A HIKE!
SRS Watch news: DOE’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2021 Blows up Debt and Heightens Risk of New Nuclear Arms Race; Nuclear Weapons Funding Gets Large Increase, including for Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s $19.8 Billion Far Above $16.5 Billion in FY 2020
Columbia, South Carolina – The U.S. Department of Energy today sent its budget request for Fiscal Year 2021 to Congress. The massive and unjustified increase in DOE’s nuclear weapons budget will fuel a new nuclear arms race, needlessly enrich private contractors and increase the debt. The request begs for rejection by Congress, according to the public interest organization Savannah River Site Watch.
SRSW news on DOE budget request Feb 10 2020
Only a cursory FY 2021 budget overview had been released by DOE as of 9 p.m. o n Feb. 10, 2020:
https://www.energy.gov/cfo/downloads/fy-2021-budget-justification