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Alabama Republicans Have a Top Priority Now That Trump Is Coming Back: Space Command HQ

“Now that he’s going in as the 47th president, we’ll be working directly with the Trump team to make this move and make it permanent,” said one Republican member of the delegation.

Unfurling of the U.S. Space Command flag on August 29, 2019.
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Now that Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, Alabama’s congressional delegation says it has a new top priority: getting Trump to move Space Command headquarters to their state.

Space Command is currently slated to permanently stay in what was meant to be a temporary home in Colorado, a decision made by President Joe Biden’s administration last summer. With Trump set to return to office, however, several members of Alabama’s congressional delegation are confident Trump will rethink the location of the Space Command center and once again pick Alabama as its home.

“Trump has said in the campaign he was going to reverse that decision. He has since told members of our delegation it’s going to be one of the first things he does, and it’s going to be over,” Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, told NOTUS.