President-elect Donald Trump could be moving the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. That’s according to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., who said on Mobile radio show FM Talk 106.5, he’s expecting Trump to do it during his first week in office.
“I’ve told y’all since Biden made that crooked decision, it wasn’t going to work,” Rogers said. “As you know, on the armed services committee, I put a hold on any money being spent in Colorado Springs after President Biden came in and stole that mission away.”
“And I told everybody then that Colorado Springs will not be the future capital or location of space command,” Rodgers continued. “It will be Huntsville, Alabama, who won at fair and square.”
During Trump’s first administration, he ordered to move Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, which the Department of Defense named as the “preferred permanent location” for space command in 2022.
However, in 2023 President Biden reversed Trump’s order making the call to keep it in Colorado Springs.
Now, Rogers said the Trump administration will start construction next year on a new space command in Huntsville.
However, incoming the Republican congressman from Colorado Springs, Jeff Crank, is opposing the move.
“With Donald Trump, you never know,” Crank said in a statement to AL.com. “He changes his positions and his stance on issues by the day, and sometimes by the hour. If he wants to build out the space force and space command and have it meet the national security moment and our threats, then he will keep it here.”
A spokesperson for Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said he would also work to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs.
Space Command is separate from the Space Force and provides combatant commanders with support such as weather monitoring, space control and surveillance.
