Daily on Defense 🇺🇸— Alabama lawmakers livid as Biden countermands Trump’s attempt to move Space Command to Huntsville
Yesterday, President Joe Biden single-handedly decided Colorado — a blue state that voted for him — will be the permanent home of SPACECOM, overruling a Trump-era recommendation of the Air Force, while citing the argument made by current U.S. Space Commander Gen. James Dickinson that moving the headquarters would jeopardize military readiness.
‘THIS FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER’: The reaction from Alabama lawmakers was fast and furious. “It’s clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision,” fumed House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers , who vowed to open a congressional investigation into Biden’s decision. “This fight is far from over.”
Tuberville’s long-running battle with the Pentagon over its policy funding travel for military members seeking abortions was not a factor in Biden’s decision, White House officials insisted. Alabama is one of several states that strictly limit abortions, and locating Space Command personnel there would move them from a state whose constitution guarantees a right to abortion.
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“Think of a house,” Kotkin said. “Let’s say that you own a house and it has ten rooms. And let’s say that I barge in and take two of those rooms away, and I wreck those rooms. And, from those two rooms, I’m wrecking your other eight rooms and you’re trying to beat me back. You’re trying to evict me from the two rooms. You push out a little corner, you push out another corner, maybe. But I’m still there and I’m still wrecking. And the thing is, you need your house. That’s where you live.
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