President Joe Biden on Monday rejected a controversial decision by former President Donald Trump to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama, keeping the military’s space operations in Colorado, according to the Associated Press.
President Joe Biden at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 31, 2023.
Biden was reportedly persuaded by Space Command General James Dickinson to keep the command in Colorado Springs in order to preserve the country’s military readiness, senior White House officials told AP..
The report follows a last-ditch effort by the Trump Administration in January 2021 to shuffle Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama, over five other cities that had been named finalists for the headquarters months earlier.
The headquarters have taken on special importance since the Space Force was launched as a sixth U.S. military branch in 2019 and has since been based temporarily at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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