{"id":394246,"date":"2025-09-03T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394246\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:53:11","slug":"trump-announces-space-force-headquarters-moving-to-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394246\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces Space Force headquarters moving to Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump announced Tuesday that\u00a0US Space Command is relocating to Alabama after former President Joe Biden canceled plans<\/a>\u00a0to build\u00a0Space Force\u2019s headquarters\u00a0in the Southern state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to report that the US Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama \u2014 forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City,\u201d Trump said in the Oval Office, referring to a nickname already used by the city \u2014 the home of NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n

President Trump is expected to announce US Space Command is relocating to Alabama after President Joe Biden canceled plans to build the military branch\u2019s headquarters in the Southern state. Space Operations Command<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision will help America defend and dominate the high frontier, as they call it,\u201d Trump said, confirming Space Command\u2019s move from Colorado Springs, Colo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe initially selected Huntsville for the SPACECOM headquarters, yet those plans were wrongfully obstructed by the Biden administration, and as you know, they moved them to a different locale and today, we\u2019re moving forward with what we want to do,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

The new SPACECOM HQ will also help develop America\u2019s \u201cGolden Dome\u201d integrated missile defense program, the president announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), also present in the Oval Office, asserted that the Alabama location would save taxpayers $480 million.<\/p>\n

But Trump identified other reasons for the move.<\/p>\n

Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman (R), Space Force and Command Senior Enlisted Leader, and CMSgt Roger Towberman (L), with Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, present US President Donald Trump with the official flag of the United States Space Force in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2020. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem I have with Colorado \u2014 one of the big problems \u2014 they do mail-in voting. They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections,\u201d the president said during his initial announcement.<\/p>\n

Trump then revisited the matter when asked by a reporter if he was concerned about some Space Force workers not wanting to move.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe problem with Colorado is they have a very corrupt voting system,\u201d Trump replied.\u00a0\u201cIf you have mail-in voting, you will have corrupt elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey teased the move was coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace Command coming to Huntsville? Count on it,\u201d Ivey posted to X\u00a0Aug. 28. \u201cHuntsville was already chosen once before as the home for U.S. Space Command \u2014 and for good reason. I remain confident that Alabama is the right place for this mission to take root and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump had ordered the Space Force headquarters be moved to Huntsville in the final months of his first term in office \u2014 only for Biden to overturn the decision.<\/p>\n

Republicans accused Biden of canceling the move for political reasons, as his administration aimed to avoid building new military facilities in states with abortion restrictions.<\/p>\n

The GOP also alleged it was in retaliation for Tuberville\u2019s unilateral hold on military promotions in\u00a0protest of a Pentagon policy covering troops\u2019 travel expenses to receive reproductive healthcare \u2014 such as in-vitro fertilization and abortions\u00a0\u2014\u00a0during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to know that I disagree with the way Sen. Tuberville did things,\u201d Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) told Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall about the move\u00a0during a 2023 hearing.\u00a0\u201cBut to me, my concern is, it looks like it\u2019s payback from the president of the United States \u2013 and payback is a very dangerous game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Space Force was converted into a full military branch in 2019, during Trump\u2019s first term. AP<\/p>\n

Huntsville was pitched as the new Space Command headquarters due to its history as a hub for rocket and missile development after World War II, which led to its close association with the US space program.<\/p>\n

Space Command had been based in Colorado Springs since its creation in 1985. Trump ordered the creation of the Space Force as a full-scale military branch in December 2019.<\/p>\n

Biden had argued that there was no need to move the command after the then-head of Space Command,\u00a0Army Gen. James Dickinson \u2014 a Colorado native \u2014 reportedly convinced the 46th president not to move the base, arguing it would \u201cjeopardize military readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

That assessment contradicted the Air Force\u2019s previous recommendation of relocating Space Force headquarters to Huntsville after studying the issue at length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump announced Tuesday that\u00a0US Space Command is relocating to Alabama after former President Joe Biden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[32,1921,285,70,413,12769,16,15,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-394246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-live-blogs","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-space-program","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115139759755027541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}