Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, overturning Trump decision to move it to Alabama
over 59 other cities more than 2 1/2 years ago, with Mr. Trump saying later he “single-handedly” engineered the move. But Mr. Biden put the brakes on that decision once he moved into the White House in 2021. Mr. Tuberville said Monday in a statement that the only thing that had changed in the selection process was the “political party of the sitting president.”headquarters in a location that didn’t even make the top three” choices, he said.
Mr. Tuberville also charged the White House with waiting until Congress had gone into its August recess and had already passed next year’s defense budget before announcing the decision. Colorado lawmakers, by contrast, hailed the decision. The state’s backers noted that Colorado Springs is already home to the Air Force Academy, which now graduates Space Force guardians, and more than 24 military space missions, including three Space Force bases. A new headquarters in Alabama would not be fully operational until sometime after 2030, they said.
“For two and a half years we’ve known any objective analysis of this basing decision would reach the same conclusion we did, that Peterson Space Force Base is the best home for ,” Sen. John Hickenlooper, Colorado Democrat, said in a statement. “Most importantly, this decision firmly rejects the idea that politics — instead of national security — should determine basing decisions central to our national security.”
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