The U.S. Senate has joined the House in rejecting a deep cut to Hanford spending proposed by the Trump administration. A Senate proposal that would provide $748 million more in annual spending than proposed in the Trump administration's budget for fiscal year 2021 for the Hanford nuclear reservation has been released by a subcommittee. The Senate Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee proposes a budget of nearly $2.6 billion for the nuclear reservation, where environmental cleanup is underway after the site produced plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program during World War Ⅱ and the Cold War. The budget proposal would be $43 million more than current spending.
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