4. Department of Defense · Major
Abandon the policy of not defending the homeland against Russian and Chinese missiles
Printed page 127 4. Department of Defense
“Abandon the existing policy of not defending the homeland against Russian and Chinese ballistic missiles and focus on how to improve defense as the Russian and Chinese missile threats increase at an unprecedented rate.”
What has happened
- Done
Congress funded the new posture: sec. 20003 of the reconciliation act (P.L. 119-21) appropriated about $24.4 billion for integrated air and missile defense, including $5.6 billion for space-based and boost-phase interceptors, $7.2 billion for space-based sensors and $800 million for next-generation ICBM defense. The FY2026 NDAA (P.L. 119-60, sec. 1652) added annual reporting on the Golden Dome architecture.
- Done
Executive Order 14186 ('The Iron Dome for America', later Golden Dome) states that homeland missile defense policy had been 'only to stay ahead of rogue-nation threats' and replaces it: the United States 'will deter — and defend its citizens and critical infrastructure against — any foreign aerial attack on the Homeland', with an architecture for attacks 'from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries'. The policy the Mandate asks to abandon is abandoned by the order's own terms.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The Mandate’s ask is a policy change; the done reading rests on the order’s sec. 1–2 text, not on any interceptor being fielded. Whether Golden Dome is built is a different question the site does not track here.
- Implementation pages on war.gov (“General Guetlein to Lead the Office of Golden Dome for America”,
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4251596/…; the 2025-05-20 announcement on whitehouse.gov exists only as a video/gallery page) return 403 or carry no text — leads.
- Action
- rescind
- Object
- U.S. homeland missile defense policy toward Russia and China
- ID
- 265