In the light of the Liberation Times article, this article seemed of note
January 23, 2026 6:58 pm
Appropriators say the Pentagon has yet to explain how it plans to spend the $23 billion Congress allocated for the Golden Dome initiative.
When the Defense Department received a $23 billion down payment for the Golden Dome initiative through a reconciliation bill, lawmakers demanded a detailed plan for how the Pentagon plans to spend that money.
Six months later, lawmakers are still waiting for the Pentagon to provide “complete budgetary details and justification of the $23,000,000,000 in mandatory funding.” That includes a comprehensive deployment schedule, cost, schedule and performance metrics and a finalized system architecture.
As a result, Congressional appropriators were unable to conduct oversight of Golden Dome programs for fiscal 2026.
The department’s $175 billion Golden Dome initiative President Donald Trump first ordered last January aims to build a network of satellites — possibly numbering in the hundreds or even thousands — that would detect, track and intercept incoming missiles. Pentagon officials have described the program as a “top priority for the nation.”
The effort has been shrouded in secrecy, and lawmakers’ demand for more detail on how the Pentagon plans to spend the initial tranche of funding is another sign of Congress’s limited visibility into the program’s early spending plans.
by silv3rbull8
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This agency can’t account for most of the money it has received, so, naturally, we just keep throwing more money at it. The infinite, endless corruption…
Yay! That could have been healthcare! But we got a … a concept of a plan.