Senator or Secretary Wright, welcome. Looking at your total budget request for the Department of energy, it's at $54 billion, is that correct? Yes. And I believe my numbers are correct, that 65% of [the Department of Energy's budget] will go to NNSA, and it would increase to 75% if you include the cleanup site. is that correct? Yes. If you lumped environment. Those are our two biggest categories, certainly the nuclear stockpile and environmental management. Right. (00:25–00:38)
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