Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday warned a government shutdown could threaten nuclear weapons safety with funding on the verge of a lapse about a week.

“We have about eight more days of funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the overseer of our nuclear weapons stockpile, the engines that power our nuclear submarines and our aircraft carriers. Eight more days of funding, and then we have to go into some emergency shutdown procedures, putting our country at risk,” Wright said during an appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”

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