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House Democrats try to shoot down Trump’s low-yield nukes

By Travis J. Tritten

Published June 3, 2018 4:00am ET

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House Democrats try to shoot down Trump’s low-yield nukes — In this Jan. 9, 2008 photo released by the U.S. Navy, tThe Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming approaches Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. Nuclear-armed U.S. submarines that went more than a decade without calling on foreign ports in part because of post-Sept. 11 security concerns are once again visiting other countries, a shift intended to underscore their global presence and lift sailor morale. A stop in September 2015 by USS Wyoming in the United Kingdom was the first of what are expected to be occasional visits to foreign ports. | (Lt. Rebecca Rebarich/AP)

A group of House Democrats will take another run this week at stopping President Trump and the Pentagon from developing low-yield nuclear weapons.

The new warhead program would be defunded by $65 million in the coming year under an amendment to a Department of Energy appropriations bill proposed by Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., John Garamendi, D-Calif., and Dan Kildee, D-Mich.

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