Washington – President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the headquarters of the United States space command will move to Alabama from Colorado, reversing a decision that the Biden administration took on its main location.
In comments at the White House, Trump said he was making the change in part due to the use of Colorado of the vote by mail.
“The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, makes vote by mail, went to vote by mail, so they have automatically twisted the elections,” Trump said in the Oval office.
Colorado celebrates elections in person, but each voter automatically receives a ballot by mail.
“We cannot have that when a state is for mail vote, that means they want dishonest elections, because that is what that means. So he also played a great factor,” Trump said while Alabama legislators who pressed for the command of the space command to their state.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, and several Republicans of Alabama in the event, said it was President Joe Biden who changed the headquarters of the Colorado Space Command of what was supposed to be Alabama.
Hegesh said that Trump was restoring his headquarters to “precisely where he should be, according to what the space force, the Air Force, his leadership,” he said, “he will give us a strategic advantage in the future.”
“That is Huntsville, Alabama,” the Secretary of Defense continued. “We are very ahead in space, but this will ensure that we jump and limits ahead, because that is the most important domain. Who controls the heavens will control the future war. And the President, today ensures that this happens.”
Trump created the “space force” in 2018 during his first term to compete with other world powers such as China and Russia in space. Although he had announced and later it was confirmed that Huntsville was the preferred location for its headquarters, the Biden administration stopped those plans in 2023 due to the concerns with the Alabama abortion abortion law. As a result, the head of the US space command. UU. Decided that year that the military branch would build its headquarters in Colorado Springs.
Trump said Tuesday that the move to Alabama would result in 30,000 jobs in the state and lead to hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. “The most important thing is that this decision will help the United States to defend and master the high border, as they call it,” he said.
The president added that the space command, from his new location, will play a “key role” in the development of the “golden dome”, the antimisile defense system that Trump wants to model after the iron dome of Israel.
“We are going to have a golden dome that the tastes that nobody has seen before, the best, the best,” he said.
