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Blue Dog Coalition Rep. Jared Golden and four other Dems voted to approve a bill that earmarks $25 billion for Trump's "Golden Dome" system, which could be worth hundreds of billions to Elon Musk's SpaceX and Palantir. Latest for @sludge subscribers

https://readsludge.com/2025/05/02/five-dems-vote-with-gop-to-push-pentagon-budget-over-1-trillion/

Five Dems Vote With GOP to Push Pentagon Budget Over $1 Trillion

The House Armed Services Committee members voted with Republicans to advance their portion of President Trump's sweeping budget "megabill."

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David Moore May 3, 2025

Folks in #ME02, and ideally the Bangor Daily News, can ask Rep. Golden about the "Golden Dome" feasibility:

“Long-range interceptors have failed many tests, and those tests were considerably less rigorous than an actual attack would be…that a new initiative would do better is both unproven and unlikely,” William Hartung explained.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/golden-dome/

Saying the quiet part out loud: All that glitters is not 'Golden Dome'

It may be what insiders call a 'monster systems engineering problem' but contractors are all too happy to indulge the dream

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