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Pedro Camacho

Trump's Space-Based 'Golden Dome' Could Cost Over $1 Trillion, Take a Decade to Build, Report Reveals

President Donald Trump (Credit: Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to build a U.S. missile defense system partly based in space, known as "Golden Dome," which he says will be finished by the end of his term for $175 billion and "forever end the missile threat to the American homeland."

A new sprawling report by The Washington Post has revealed, however, that the system is likely to take at least a decade and could cost $1 trillion or more.

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