The Reality of Trump's Golden Dome

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump is hoping to replicate at home what he sees as the successes of missile defenses abroad.
51% : The program was canceled after technological challenges proved too difficult to overcome, despite years of effort and billions of dollars in federal spending. To oversee Golden Dome's development, Trump named Gen. Michael A. Guetlein, now serving as the U.S. Space Force's vice chief of space operations.
48% : At the White House on Tuesday, President Trump unveiled the broad contours of his plan to construct a missile defense system around the United States -- the first step in what would be a staggering undertaking.
45% : Trump put the total cost at $175 billion, but a Congressional Budget Office review estimated that the space elements alone could reach as much as $542 billion to deploy and operate over the next 20 years.
38% : Trump said it would be completed within three years, but industry officials and analysts expect the space-based elements to take much longer.
25% : Trump said he was "completing the job" that President Ronald Reagan began in the 1980s with his unrealized space-based missile defense program, derisively nicknamed "Star Wars."

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