Posted: May 22, 2025 9:01 pm ET | Last Updated: May 22, 2025 11:12 pm ET | The House passed the reconciliation bill on May 22, 2025 that includes $25 billion for Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system that includes space-based intercptors. But the head of the U.S. Space Force is warning that his service is already under-resourced and has lost 14 percent of its civilian workforce.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: February 8, 2025 1:25 pm ET | Last Updated: February 8, 2025 1:36 pm ET | Senators Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) have introduced the IRONDOME Act to begin implementing President Trump's Iron Dome for America concept, which includes development of space-based interceptors. The idea traces its roots to Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget. When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources from the Republican-controlled Congress’s budget| CovertAction Magazine
The inclusion of space-based interceptors is a particularly hard nut for Moscow to swallow, given long-standing Russian belief that such weapons are aimed at undercutting the country’s nuclear retaliatory capability following a US first strike.| Breaking Defense
Trump’s signature legislation will push defense spending past $1 trillion, with new funding for innovation and other capabilities. But those investments are at risk of becoming one-off acquisitions w…| Council on Foreign Relations
Posted: June 10, 2025 11:06 pm ET | Last Updated: June 12, 2025 9:01 pm ET | The House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee took the first step in funding DOD for FY2026 on June 10, 2025, approving a bill that keeps total DOD spending at the same level as FY2025. The Space Force would also be funded at the same level as FY2025 even though the Trump Administration proposed cutting it by almost $3 billion.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: May 20, 2025 6:22 pm ET | Last Updated: May 21, 2025 10:23 am ET | President Trump announced that U.S. Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein will lead the Golden Dome missile defense project.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
President Trump issued an executive order tasking the Pentagon to build a multilayered defense system against emerging missile threats.| DefenseScoop
It's not clear why gold was chosen, but it is famously Trump's favorite color.| The War Zone
