The US Space Force celebrated its fifth birthday last year, when it boasted an annual budget of $29 billion, about 3.5 percent of the Pentagon’s overall funding level.
On March 15, President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill that set the Space Force’s budget for fiscal year 2025 at $28.7 billion. This was the first cut to the Space Force’s budget since Trump created the military’s newest service branch in 2019.
Gen. Chance Saltzman, the top general in the Space Force, worries that the budget crunch will hamstring the military’s ability to match China’s fast-growing space architecture. The Space Force is charged with developing and operating satellites, ground systems, and weapons that the Pentagon could use to track and target enemy forces on the ground and in space.
Source : https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/maybe-trump-should-go-back-to-calling-his-missile-shield-the-iron-dome/
