“We will replenish our military and build an Iron Dome missile defense system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland—and this great Iron Dome will all be MADE IN THE USA.”
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Trump signed the 'Iron Dome for America' executive order on January 27, 2025, directing a next-generation missile defense shield, personally announced a selected architecture and $175 billion estimate on May 20, 2025, and Congress approved roughly $24 billion in initial funding in the July 2025 reconciliation law. As of mid-2026 the renamed Golden Dome remains in early development with no deployed system; CBO projected in May 2026 that a comparable system could cost $1.2 trillion over 20 years. Personal, sustained leadership with funding secured but the promised system far from built rates CHAMPIONED.
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