Though not directly related, Alabama Republicans on Monday appeared to suggest the Space Command basing decision was, at least in part, retaliatory.
“The Biden Administration has been talking a lot about readiness over the past few months, but no Administration has done more to damage our military readiness in my lifetime,” Tuberville said Monday in a press release. “They’ve politicized our military, destroyed our recruiting, misused our tax dollars for their extremist social agenda, and now they are putting Space Command headquarters in a location that didn’t even make the top three. They are doing this at a time when space is only becoming more important for national security.”
“The President’s blatant prioritization of partisan political considerations at the expense of our national security, military modernization, and force readiness is a disservice and a dishonor to his oath of office as our nation’s Commander-in-Chief. Locating the permanent Space Command Headquarters on Redstone Arsenal undoubtedly remains in the best national security interest of the United States” said Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., in a press release.
House Armed Services Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., said in a press release Monday that it was “clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision.” Rogers, who has held up some of the Pentagon’s requests to reprogram money over the Space Command headquarters decision, pledged to continue to investigate the issue.
“The fight is far from over,” he said, a sentiment echoed by Tuberville.
