“Bottom line, whoever builds or tries to build the so-called Golden Dome is going to fail and waste a lot of taxpayer cash along the way. That hasn’t changed,” said Gabe Murphy, a policy analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog advocating for an end to wasteful spending. “The technology to knock an ICBM or hypersonic missile out of the sky does not exist, and if, hundreds of billions of dollars later, we manage to come close, our adversaries will just build a better missile.” … “Contracts should be awarded and canceled by contracting officers based on their merits, not personal relationships,” said Taxpayers for Common Sense’s Murphy. “Anything else leads to waste and corruption.”