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$7 billion for a destroyer is a crime. Seriously. And the Zumwalt doesn’t even have the Burke class’ anti-air capability. Not enough room to shoehorn that caliber of AA electronics into the current design.
I call shenanigans. The AN-SPY 3 Multifunction radar was designed from the beginning with anti-aircraft capabilities. In 2008, Vice Adm. Barry McCullough, redefined these capabilities out of existence with Potomac spin. Because the new system has not been configured, as of yet, for the SM-2 and SM-6 missiles, he decided that there was no such capability.

This ship is a multi-billion dollar solution in search of a problem.
Creating a stealthy fire support ship and being the basis of the CG(X).

Zumwalt would be appalled at his name being stuck on this turkey. He was all about “many and cheap”... building a huge fleet of small, easy to build and inexpensive warships vs. a small fleet with a few hyper-expensive behemoths. He was the brainchild behind the Sea Control Ship and the Perry class frigate. Sometimes I think someone in the Navy Department named this ship just to insult his memory.
No disagreement.

"In 2008, Vice Adm. Barry McCullough, redefined these capabilities out of existence with Potomac spin. "

How it it "Potomac Spin" to say "Look, anti-air won't work here"? That's not spin, that's a flat out statement of lack of capabilities. The spin is coming from Raytheon. And it can't do BMD, because again, space constraints prevent the version of AN-SPY3 going into Zumwalt to do everything that a "full" SPY3 system could do. From the Wikipedia page for the system:

It can combine the functions of up to five radars and ten antennas.

Notice the up to part. From what I've read in professional Naval blogs, the problem is that Zumwalt's "island" just doesn't have enough room to pack all of the needed electronics into a fully capable SPY3 package.