Key US nuclear agency to send 80% of workforce home as shutdown drags on
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington from on (#70V19)
About 1,400 staff at NNAS, which manages America's nuclear weapons stockpile, to be furloughed on Monday
The agency that maintains the US nuclear arsenal will be sending home 80% of its workforce as the government shutdown drags through its 17th day and into the weekend, now the longest full funding lapse in US history.
House armed services committee chair Mike Rogers said in a Friday press conference that the National Nuclear Security Administration has now exhausted its carryover reserves.
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