Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the gutting of a Pentagon office shortly after it disclosed that it would be overseeing the testing of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system and the programs associated with the massive,

President Trump on Tuesday touted $25 billion in initial funding for the "Golden Dome" and put Gen. Michael Guetlein, the vice chief of space operations, in charge of realizing the hemispheric missile shield.