So, I wrote the title and "is this already being discussed?" gives me two threads, the second of which is titled "Trump and Musk Saving America Billions of Dollars"
Well, I stumbled across an article that says "Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' defence system"
"An initial sum of $25bn (£18.7bn) has been earmarked in a new budget bill - although the government has estimated it will end up costing much more than that over decades."
So he's saving money, and then going off spending this money, inevitably, on defense contractors for some kind of defense that Reagan came up with too.
Reagan got the US to spend $200 billion of the US's money on this. And for what? A system that wasn't what Reagan said it was.
"Instead of deploying lasers and other high-tech weaponry in space, as proposed under Reagan, SDIO relies on interceptors based in Alaska and California, as well as aboard 26 naval vessels to shoot down any intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) fired at the U.S."
The ambitious and costly program, dubbed “Star Wars,” is now in its fourth decade, having consumed $209 billion while never being tested, even on a limited scale, in the heat of battle. Lewis and Postol expressed concerns because in each U.S. test, the trajectory, timing of the launch and the...
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"In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative to develop and deploy an impenetrable shield to protect the United States from a Soviet missile attack. The ambitious and costly program, dubbed “Star Wars,” is now in its fourth decade, having consumed $209 billion while never being tested, even on a limited scale, in the heat of battle."
So, Trump is a scammer, telling everyone he's going to save money, and then.... proving he's not going to.