The Government Accountability Office has agreed to a request for an investigation into President Joe Biden's decision to keep Space Command in Colorado despite the previous administration's decision to move it to Huntsville, Alabama.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) requested the investigation last Thursday, while a GAO spokesman told the Washington Examiner on Monday that the investigation went through the review and has commenced. Investigators will now determine the scope of what they will investigate and the methodology they will use. Once both are determined, they will come up with an expected final release date.

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Biden's decision, which the administration announced in late July, to keep Space Command's headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, reversed a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. For months, lawmakers from Colorado and Alabama jockeyed to get the administration to choose their state, and Biden's selection resulted in swift denouncements from Alabama lawmakers, including Rogers, who accused the president of making this decision with political motivations.

"National security decisions of this magnitude and significant economic interest require the process to be standardized, repeatable, transparent, and deliberate. Based on numerous administration officials talking to the press, the decision by President Biden appears to be anything but," Rogers said in his letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro. "Preferential decision-making by the President because of certain state laws has widely been publicized as a major factor but was never included in the basing requirements. Long-term, permanent basing decisions should stand up to scrutiny and not be politically motivated based on social policy preferences or based on advocacy by Administration officials."

Last week, the Alabama lawmaker said he invited Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, Space Command Commander James Dickinson, and Space Force Chief of Space Operations Chance Saltzman to testify in front of the committee.

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In that statement, Rogers called Biden's decision to base Space Command permanently in Colorado "politically motivated," said there was "political manipulation of the selection process," and argued that the decision was made "to improve his political standing for next year's reelection." The White House and National Security Council have denied the allegations.

The most significant factor that went into the president's decision was that Space Command would achieve "full operational capability" by the end of August, whereas the opening of the new site in Alabama likely wouldn't be until the early-to-mid 2030s, a senior administration official told the Washington Examiner when the decision was announced.