The House has advanced a $57.3 billion energy and water agency spending plan that slashes current-year allocations for non-defense programs by nearly 3 percent while boosting spending for the nation’s nuclear weapons programs by more than 25 percent.
HR 4553, the Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies budget, was adopted on Sept. 4 in a 214–213 partisan tally with four Republicans joining all Democrats in voting against the measure.
The bill, the third of 12 annual appropriations packages passed by the House, now moves on to the Senate, where it will likely need Democratic support to get to President Donald Trump’s desk by Oct. 1, the start of the federal fiscal year….