{"id":44626,"date":"2026-08-14T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44626"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:44:05","slug":"will-a-washington-funding-fight-doom-the-golden-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44626","title":{"rendered":"Will a Washington funding fight doom the Golden Dome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ben and Guy discuss the major developments from the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/huntsville\/\">Huntsville<\/a>, the Pentagon\u2019s acquisition of a bauxite mine in Guyana, and how close Iran came to launching an attack against Air Force One last month. <\/p>\n<p>Then, Threat Status\u2019 John T. Seward sits down for an exclusive interview with Lt. Gen. Brian Gibson, vice director of the Golden Dome missile shield project. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, the \u201cThreat of the Week.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/newsletter\/sign-up\/?utm_campaign=threat-status\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to receive the daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/threat-status\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threat Status<\/a> newsletter delivered directly to your inbox.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/threat-status\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/media.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2024\/03\/20\/Threat_Status_footer_logo.png\" width=\"885\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben and Guy discuss the major developments from the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, the Pentagon\u2019s acquisition of a bauxite mine in Guyana, and how close Iran came to launching an attack against Air Force One last month. Then, Threat Status\u2019 John T. Seward sits down for an exclusive interview with Lt. Gen&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/14\/9866337_c103-0-5643-3232_s1200x700.jpg?cc175c2e2407b9adba07f5fdac3422d577153373","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}