Unleashing America’s Manifest Destiny:
The End of an Era & The Start of a New Space Policy

Trump’s counterpart to Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative is the Golden Dome. It is not merely a defense system—it is an economic engine, designed to mobilize American industry to design, build, and sustain a protective shield at home and abroad, including in space. The same principles apply to trade. Strength in space is economic strength, and economic strength is national strength.

President Trump has already recognized—clearly and deliberately—that space is now an American marketplace to build, compete, dominate, and defend.

The most powerful signal to global markets would be a formal U.S. trade policy declaration establishing the Rules of the Road for the Space Marketplace. No modern president has demonstrated greater willingness to use global trade regimes to advance American interests than Donald J. Trump.

The Reagan Era of Space Commercialization is over. The Trump Era of Space Commerce has begun.

====WHAT THE NEXT EXECUTIVE ORDER SHOULD LOOK LIKE====

Unleashing America’s Manifest Destiny—At Home, Into the Heavens, and Beyond

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose

From its founding, the United States has embraced the responsibility—and destiny—of advancing into new territories to secure its economic and security interests. America’s engines of discovery, engineering, development, and adventure have carried the Nation across continents and oceans. That same impulse now drives us outward—into Space.

Space is a vast, defined physical domain within reach of American enterprise. The Space Marketplace is the next logical frontier for economic, scientific, and security expansion. To promote certainty, unleash private investment, and fully realize American exceptionalism, all domestic and international legal and regulatory impediments to that expansion must be removed without delay.

Section 2. Definitions

For purposes of this Order, all economic activity—including investment, production, and the sale of goods and services—occurring directly or indirectly within the United States and the physical region known as Space shall constitute a “marketplace,” and such activity shall be recognized as “commerce” under all applicable domestic and international trade, antitrust, taxation, and economic development authorities.

Section 3. Directive to the Office of Management and Budget

Within 30 days, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidance clarifying that participation in commerce within the Space Marketplace shall not, by itself, disqualify any entity from eligibility for any federal trade or economic development programs unless expressly prohibited by law.

Section 4. Directive to the Secretary of Commerce

Within 90 days, the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with relevant departments and agencies, shall review all existing rules and regulations affecting commerce in the Space Marketplace and consult broadly with private capital, industry, academia, and international trade experts.

Within 120 days, the Secretary shall deliver to the President a report identifying specific regulatory and policy impediments and recommending actions to suspend, revise, or eliminate barriers to market entry and growth.

Section 5. Directive to the U.S. Trade Representative

Within 180 days, the United States Trade Representative shall pursue Trade Promotion Authority to initiate negotiations for the world’s first Space Marketplace trade agreement under the Trade Act of 1974.

Section 6. Oversight

The Department of Commerce shall serve as the lead entity for development, promotion, and oversight of the Space Marketplace and shall issue an annual State of the Space Marketplace report to the President and Congress.

Section 7. General Provisions

This Order shall be implemented consistently with existing law and subject to appropriations.