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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brendan Rascius

True cost of Trump’s Golden Dome revealed at $1.2 trillion, six times more than he claimed, budget report says

The true cost of President Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system has been revealed — and it's more than the entire Defense Department spent last year.

The space-based system would cost roughly $1.2 trillion to develop, deploy and operate for two decades, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan federal research agency. That’s more than six times the $175 billion price tag the president provided last May.

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