The Trump administration reportedly plans to announce as early as Tuesday the relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama.
The Pentagon’s public affairs site stated that President Donald Trump was slated to make a ‘U.S. Space Command HQ Announcement’ at 2 p.m. ET. This decision, if implemented, would reverse a move made under the former Biden administration, which had designated Colorado Springs as the permanent home for the military’s newest combatant command in 2023.
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A relocation could stir controversy. Critics suggest the move appears to favor Alabama, a typically Republican state, over Colorado, which has been leaning Democratic in recent elections. Space Command currently operates from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs temporarily. About 1,700 personnel are employed at Space Command, according to congressional records.
President Trump has often intertwined federal funding decisions with politics. The U.S. president previously obstructed a move to place the FBI’s headquarters in Maryland, labeling it a ‘liberal state’ and conjecturing about linking disaster aid in California to the state’s policy decisions.
Huntsville, host to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and a crucial hub for defense contractors such as L3Harris and Lockheed Martin, has long campaigned for the Space Command headquarters.
The move would reward a state that largely backed Trump’s three Republican presidential bids, at the expense of one that opposed them. More details are expected to emerge in the coming days.
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