– Supreme Court finishes announcing decisions for the year at 1000. Follow it on Scotusblog.
-HASC has 1pm hearing with SecDef Esper and CJCS Milley. Expect questions about Lafayette Square operations and Vindman retirement.
– Hopkins has new tracker of school reopening policies nationwide.
– Big clash over who controls NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) budget. SASC gave DOD more power in its authorization bill, but House Appropriators forbid that in their Energy approps bill. It’s a lot harder to resolve disagreements that can’t come up in a conference committee because of the different legislative vehicles.
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