CBO: Golden Dome to cost $1.2 trillion

A new report estimates Golden Dome will cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion to build, deploy and operate over 20 years. For perspective, that price tag — which greatly surpasses the annual budgets of California ($321 billion for FY 2026) and New York ($254.4 billion) — is roughly double Germany's €524.5 billion budget ($614 billion) for 2026.The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new total dwarfs the Trump administration’s previous $175 billion cost estimate for the prospective missile defense system...