With the Iran situation intensifying, senators will put forward a bill Tuesday that creates the "Golden Dome" missile defense system modeled off Israel’s Iron Dome that President Donald Trump asked for at the beginning of his term.
Sens. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., came together to craft the Ground & Orbital Launched Defeat of Emergent Nuclear Destruction and Other Missile Engagements (Golden Dome) Act, a $21 billion congressional authorization split among more than two dozen individual defensive strategies.
It comes after Trump ordered in January that a defense system be realized in response to the "threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks." Trump later confirmed his plan to seek construction of the Golden Dome at a May White House appearance with Sullivan.
"The escalating missile threats we’ve witnessed from the Iranian terrorist regime and the rapidly evolving hypersonic, cruise missile and drone threats from Russia, China, and other adversaries demonstrate why we need to develop a robust, modernized missile defense system to protect the entire country—which the Golden Dome Act will do," Sullivan told Fox News Digital.