Last night the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, S.4927, which includes spending for fiscal year (FY) 2025 spending for DOE of $52.370 billion, an increase of 2.12 billion from fiscal year (FY) 2024. The bill has a clear focus on increasing funding to Environmental Cleanup.
Environmental and other Defense Activities
- FY2025 would provide a total of $9.315 billion
in funding
- This would be $665 million more than FY2024
- This would be $1 billion more than the House Bill
- FY2025 would provide $7.55 billion to fund cleanup at defense sites
- This would be $265 million more than in FY2024
- This would be $42 million more than the House Bill
National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA)
- FY2025 would provide the NNSA with $25.2 billion
- This would be a $1.1 billion increase from FY2024
- This would be $266 million less than the House Bill
Nuclear Energy
- FY2025 would provide $1.675 billion in funding to nuclear energy
- This would a be a decrease
of $10 million from FY2024
- This would be about $12 million less than the House bill
Legacy Management
- FY2025 would provide LM with $205.25 million
- This would be an increase of $8.956 million, in line with the President's request
As a
reminder, the House number which has not passed the House includes $49.935 billion for DOE - a cut of $311 million from last year. See the full Senate report below.
