The White House has denied allegations from Alabama legislators that President Joe Biden's decision to keep Space Command's headquarters in Colorado was based on politics.

National Security Council officials confirmed on Monday Biden's decision, which ends years of speculation as to whether Biden would hold up former President Donald Trump's last-minute agreement to move the permanent headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama.

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“The deciding factor for President Biden in deciding to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs was operational readiness, pure and simple," NSC Coordinator John Kirby said on Tuesday. "It had nothing to do with Sen. Tuberville’s holds, had nothing to do with partisan politics, had everything to do with making sure that Space Command, in an undisrupted way, continue to operate at peak readiness levels in what is one of the most critical domains across the spectrum of your domains in that space."

Both Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released statements quickly after the White House confirmed the president's decision excoriating him for it.

"It’s clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision," Rogers said. “The Biden administration’s shameful delay to finalize the permanent basing decision for U.S. Space Command warranted the opening of a Congressional investigation. I will continue this investigation to see if they intentionally misled the Armed Services Committee on their deliberate taxpayer-funded manipulation of the selection process."

A senior administration official told the Washington Examiner on Monday U.S. Space Command headquarters will achieve “full operational capability” in the coming weeks, while moving it to Alabama would result in its opening in the early-to-mid 2030s, which Biden determined to be an “unacceptable” risk.

Similarly, Tuberville argued, "This is absolutely not over. I will continue to fight this as long as it takes to bring Space Command where it would be best served — Huntsville, Alabama. Today’s disastrous mistake just adds to the long string of bad decisions that this compromised President has made. He is batting 1000 in that category since taking office.”

The senator from Alabama has been in a standoff with the Department of Defense and the Biden administration for about six months now over the policy the department imposed after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. Tuberville has stalled roughly 300 promotions and nominations over the policy, which dictates the military provide time off and reimburse the travel expenses incurred by a service member or dependent who needs to travel out of state for abortions.

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Defense officials have argued Tuberville's hold hurts both military readiness and hurts the families of the service members whose promotions are being held up.

Kirby said Tuberville's hold was not a factor in the president's decision to keep Space Command in Colorado.