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Another view ...
From Star Wars to Golden Dome: Trump Pushes US Missile Shield Despite Funding and Technology Hurdles
www.military.com
... Sitting in the Oval Office on Tuesday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a four-star Space Force general and several lawmakers, President Donald Trump made it clear: He's setting out to finish what former President Ronald Reagan started.
Reagan's 1980s-era proposal for a space-based defense shield against nuclear missiles, dubbed "Star Wars," fizzled. Now, decades later, Trump has announced a proposal he calls "Golden Dome," envisioned as a state-of-the-art missile defense system covering the U.S. that could shoot down ballistic, hypersonic and nuclear missiles -- even drones -- from land and outer space.
Trump said during the White House gathering this week that his Golden Dome would take only three years to complete, be "very close to 100%" effective, and cost only $175 billion. The promises face skepticism from experts and would require big military trade-offs, including possible troop reductions in the Army.
"We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland," Trump said this week.
However, defense policy experts who spoke to Military.com aren't so sure.
They said that, while the immediate fate of the nationwide shield is tied to short-term funding working through Congress, it may ultimately require a long-term commitment of more defense dollars or strategic trade-offs, such as cutting the size of the Army to deliver the ambitious vision being pitched to the American people. ...
FBI hauls boxes of evidence from Chicago home of D.C. Jewish Museum shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez
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... So, as predicted by Trump and other - the manufacturers and middle men eat the tariffs and the tariffs ARE NOT paid by the US consumers. ...
No, what was actually said by Pres Trump was that the foreign Countries, e.g. China, pay the tariffs.
Not Americans consumers or American companies or American middle men.
Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work September 2024)
www.cnn.com
... Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance continue to falsely describe how one of their major policy proposals, across-the-board tariffs, would work.
Trump has falsely, and repeatedly, claimed that China " not US importers " pay the tariff.
At a rally in Arizona in mid-August, he claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, is lying when she refers to his tariff plan as a "Trump tax."
"She is a liar. She makes up crap ... I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country," Trump said.
In September, he repeated the claim during an interview with Fox News: "It's not a tax on the middle class. It's a tax on another country."
And he said again during a rally in Wisconsin Saturday that "it's not going to be a cost to you, it's going to be a cost to another country."
Vance said in late August that as a result of tariffs Trump imposed during his presidency, "prices went down for American citizens."
"They went up for the Chinese but they went down for our people," Vance added.
But that's not true. ...
Many links in that article.
But the gist is, Pres Trump and VP Vance lied to the American people about who pays tariffs.
@#6 ... Dems have spent 4 years ++ putting a non-thinking, non doing, non capable President and Cabinet in charge. ...
In actuality, fmr Pres Biden passed a very significant bill that aimed to bring chip manufacturing to the US.
He fought for and won bi-partisan support for the bill.
And it was passed.