00:03Thanks to Senator Kramer and Sullivan for getting this started.
00:09Vision and leadership, we couldn't do this project without President Trump.
00:15I don't think anybody else you put in this situation would even have the tenacity to step up and do something like this.
00:22But, you know, the world has been amazed at the effectiveness of the Iron Dome.
00:27They've been able to shoot down 90 percent of incoming threats.
00:33Think about that, 90 percent.
00:34Incredible.
00:35President Trump is exactly right.
00:37There is no reason why we shouldn't have the same technology right here at home.
00:42This is a dangerous world, and it's getting more dangerous every day.
00:47People made fun of President Reagan with his Star Wars program, and it was amazing.
00:54They laughed at him.
00:55They said it wouldn't work.
00:57But he understood the growing danger the American people really didn't know.
01:02But now we're all finding out.
01:03No other president since has been bold enough, been bold enough to step up and say we've got to have something to protect this country and thank God for President Trump.
01:13Now that the President is forcing our NATO partners to start paying their own share, we can focus on our own defense, and it's about time.
01:25We need to do that.
01:27We can't count on anybody else.
01:29It's going to have to be us and the American taxpayers and our military.
01:33We send billions of dollars overseas, and it's past time that we make an investment in our national security.
01:41Thanks to President Trump, peace through strength is back.
01:45You know, the Senate is proposing nearly $25 billion in a reconciliation package as a down payment to begin construction on this massive project.
01:55$25 billion, and that's just, as I said, a down payment.
01:58That's why getting the President's one big, beautiful bill passed is critical for national security.
02:05Countries like Iran are openly chanting death to America, and we have to be able to protect ourselves.
02:12You know, there's no better place to help design this and build and operate than in my home state,
02:20Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, and let me tell you something, it is probably the best-kept secret in this country.
02:28Not anymore.
02:29Exactly.
02:31For more than 80 years, Redstone Arsenal has been leading the way in space, cybersecurity, and national defense.
02:38Huntsville's talent, facilities, and resources are second to none all over the world.
02:44According to Forbes, Huntsville has the most engineers per capita in the world.
02:50That's why you see more and more agencies expanding their footprint in the Huntsville and the surrounding area,
02:56including Missile Defense Agency, NASA, FBI, Missile and Space Intelligence Center, Defense Intelligence Agency,
03:06the Army's Material Command.
03:08Huntsville is also home to more than 500 defense contractors, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance.
03:17We will be big in building a lot of this Golden Dome.
03:22Huntsville helped put the first person on the moon.
03:25What a better place to help begin the origination of Golden Dome than Huntsville, Alabama.
03:31So thanks to President Trump's American dominance and deterrence is back.
03:36The big, beautiful bill is a down payment on the Golden Dome.
03:39It will help make sure America remains the strongest, most secure nation in the world.
03:45The Golden Dome Act will advance our security even further with critical investment in emerging technologies,
03:53many of which will be developed in my home state of Alabama.
