The House Rules Committee planned to meet Monday on Capitol Hill at 4:00 p.m. to consider amendments and write rules of debate for appropriations bills that include the Department of Energy’s 2025 budget.
Of the 122 amendments offered to the Rules Committee, only a few touched on defense or civilian nuclear matters at DOE. Historically, most amendments offered to the rules committee are not made in order for floor debate.
If signed, the bill would give the National Nuclear Security Administration about $25.5 billion: 2% more than requested for fiscal year 2025 and roughly 5.5% more than the fiscal year 2024 appropriation.
DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, the cleanup office for shuttered nuclear-weapon production sites, would get about $8.3 billion: down a little from the 2024 appropriations of $8.5 billion but more than the $8.2 billion requested by the administration of President Joe Biden (D).
DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy would get almost $1.8 billion, roughly what it got for fiscal-year 2024 and around $100 million more than requested. The extra money would go to development help for advanced reactors and, as part of the bargain, the office’s waste management subprogram would get cut by more than half, relative to the 2024 budget.