The US Can’t Afford to Defund Missile Defense

This image shows one of the intercepting projectiles careening toward its target of a test Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on March 25, 2019. Missile Defense Agency

Commentary

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March, lawmakers have invested trillions of dollars in various efforts to rescue the economy. That has been money well spent. With just about everything shut down, the federal government needed to protect against economic ruin.