Mind-Boggling Cost of Trump’s Golden Dome Plan Revealed

President Donald Trump’s big space missile defense project is going way over budget.

A new analysis published Tuesday from the Congressional Budget Office predicts that the “Golden Dome” weapons system will rack up an estimated $1.2 trillion bill for the American taxpayer over the next 20 years.

When Trump signed the project into existence in the first week of his second term, an initial $25 billion was earmarked in a congressional budget bill, and by May last year, Trump said in an Oval Office announcement that he expected it would require $175 billion to become a reality.

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