
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said on Tuesday that despite rumblings about the future U.S. Golden Dome missile shield being under construction, the program is still in its early stages and that he will try to prevent the $25 billion for the program in the $113 billion DoD reconciliation bill from becoming a "slush fund." Golden Dome is "conceptual at the moment, frankly," Reed, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told a Defense Writers Group breakfast. "I suspect…