There’s Not Enough Money in the World for Trump’s Golden Dome

Photo: President Donald Trump announces the Golden Dome missile defense system, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in the Oval Office. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian via Flickr. US government work. Article by Joe Wilkins. Futurism – February 8, 2026. 

At $175 billion, Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system already came with an astonishing price tag. Yet according to one new analysis by the group Taxpayers for Common Sense, that early estimate could be a drop in the bucket compared to an actual cost so high the Golden Dome simply “will not work.” To come to that conclusion, the new analysis compiled various reports from expert sources. One of them, conducted by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, suggests that taxpayers could spend $3.6 trillion on the Golden Dome over the next 20 years, or $4.4 trillion adjusted for expected inflation. […]

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