Trump, Hegseth announce 'Golden Dome,' a ‘game changer’ to protect American homeland

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. volition soon statesman operation of a "Golden Dome" rocket defence strategy they accidental volition beryllium a next-generation "game changer" protecting the American homeland from extracurricular adversaries.

A akin system, the Iron Dome, has already been developed successful Israel with U.S. assistance and has proven effectual successful repelling rocket attacks. Now. Trump says a bigger, much technologically advanced, multi-layered dome strategy volition soon beryllium installed successful America.  

The president announced the "one large beautiful" fund bill being discussed successful Congress volition see $25 cardinal successful archetypal backing for the project, which helium expects volition outgo $175 cardinal overall. He said helium expects a large signifier of the dome volition beryllium implicit successful nether 3 years and that it volition beryllium "fully operational earlier the extremity of my term."

He noted determination is important enactment for the task successful Congress, quipping, "It's astonishing however casual this 1 is to fund."

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President Donald Trump announced his connection for a "Golden Dome" rocket defence strategy successful the United States May 20, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis/File Photo; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"In the campaign, I promised the American radical that I would physique a cutting-edge rocket defence shield to support our homeland from the menace of overseas rocket attack. And that's what we're doing today," helium said, adding that the Golden Dome "will beryllium susceptible of intercepting missiles adjacent if they are launched from the different broadside of the satellite and adjacent if they are launched from space."

Trump besides announced helium is placing Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein successful complaint of the project, saying, "No one is much qualified for this job."

Hegseth called the Golden Dome a "bold initiative" and different summation to Trump’s "long and increasing database of promises made and promises kept."

He said investing successful the caller strategy is indispensable to respond to increasing threats from countries similar Russia and China.

"Ultimately, this close here, the Golden Dome for America, is simply a crippled changer," said Hegseth. "It's a generational concern successful the information of America and Americans."

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a rocket interceptor  (Reuters )

Addressing Trump, Hegseth said, "Mr. President, you said we’re going to unafraid our confederate borderline and get 100% operational power aft the erstwhile medication allowed an penetration of radical into our country. President Reagan 40 years agone formed the imaginativeness for it. The exertion wasn't there. Now it is, and you're pursuing done to accidental we volition support the homeland from cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, drones, whether they're accepted oregon nuclear."

Guetlein indicated the Golden Dome is indispensable to sphere the safety, information and the prime of beingness Americans are utilized to.

"We beryllium it to our children and our children's children to support them and spend them a prime of beingness that we person each grown up enjoying. Golden dome volition spend that," said Guetlein.

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Gen. Michael Guetlein, vice main of abstraction operations, United States Space Force  (Space Force)

The wide said "our adversaries person go precise susceptible and precise intent connected holding the homeland astatine risk."

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"While we person been focused connected keeping the bid overseas, our adversaries person been rapidly modernizing their atomic forces, gathering up ballistic missiles susceptible of hosting aggregate warheads, gathering retired hypersonic missiles susceptible of attacking the United States wrong an hr and traveling astatine 6,000 miles an hour, gathering cruise missiles that tin navigate astir our radar and our defenses, gathering submarines that tin sneak up connected our shores and, worse yet, gathering abstraction weapons," Guetlein said. 

"It is clip that we alteration that equation and commencement doubling down connected the extortion of the homeland."