Nuclear Weapons Agency to Begin Furloughs, US Energy Secretary Warns

I am speaking to US senators on both sides of the aisle. This shutdown is definitely destructive. Everything we're trying to do is lower American energy costs and enable American businesses to build more manufacturing facilities in our country.Losing workers, having uncertainty, having funds frozen or uncertain, that's not helpful. Let me if I can give one example. We are modernizing our nuclear weapons stockpile of the Department of Energy.That's done by about 100,000 contractors. They're not government em ...