Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced
Summary
Abolish nuclear weapons and convert the U.S. nuclear weapons enterprise to climate, energy, and public needs. This bill would push the United States to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to ratify it when ratification would lead to verifiable elimination in every country. If the President certifies that all nuclear-armed countries have begun verifiable and irreversible elimination under that treaty, the bill would require transferring funding that is appropriated for nuclear weapons programs to climate and energy, human and infrastructure needs, and international engagement to promote these commitments.
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- Families and communities: Would redirect funding to health care, housing, education, agriculture, environmental restoration, and long-term radioactive waste monitoring.
- Workers in the nuclear industry: Would fund conversion of plants and processes and retraining of nuclear weapons industry employees for clean, renewable energy and related work.
- International diplomacy and security: Calls for U.S. cooperation with other nuclear-armed states to achieve verifiable elimination and to encourage all countries to join these commitments.
- Federal program change: Makes transfers of nuclear weapons program funds conditional on a presidential certification that verifiable and irreversible elimination has begun under the treaty.
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Move nuclear weapons money to clean energy
If enacted, this would move only money already appropriated for U.S. nuclear weapons programs to civilian uses. It would start after the President tells Congress that all nuclear-armed countries have begun verifiable, irreversible elimination under a global treaty. The money could fund clean, renewable energy, convert weapons plants, and retrain nuclear workers. It could also support health care, housing, education, farming, and environmental cleanup, including long-term radioactive waste monitoring. Some funds could promote other countries to make similar shifts.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Casar, Greg [D-TX-35]
TX • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Grijalva
AZ • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
McGovern
MA • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]
MN • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Pingree
ME • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]
IL • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Schakowsky
IL • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
MI • D
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
NY • D
Sponsored 12/10/2025
Roll Call Votes
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