{"id":1987196,"date":"2023-07-31T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-vows-to-fight-bidens-space-command-decision-this-is-absolutely-not-over\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:48:17","slug":"tuberville-vows-to-fight-bidens-space-command-decision-this-is-absolutely-not-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-vows-to-fight-bidens-space-command-decision-this-is-absolutely-not-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberville promises to continue battling Biden&#8217;s Space Command decision: &#8216;It&#8217;s far from finished.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftuberville-vows-to-fight-bidens-space-command-decision-this-is-absolutely-not-over%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Tommy Tuberville Slams Biden&#8217;s Decision to Keep\u200d U.S. Space Command in Colorado<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) strongly criticized President Joe Biden&#8217;s choice to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado instead \u2062of relocating it \u2063to Alabama.\u200d Tuberville accused\u2064 the current administration of injecting politics into the decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Space Command, a joint command separate from\u200c the U.S. Space Force military branch, is currently based in Colorado Springs. Towards the end of former President Donald \u200cTrump&#8217;s term, the Air \u2064Force recommended moving the\u2064 headquarters to\u2063 Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n<h3>Tuberville&#8217;s \u200cStatement<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as Joe \u200cBiden \u2063took office, he paused movement on that decision and \u200dinserted politics into \u2064what had been a fair and objective competition \u2014 \u200bnot \u200dbecause the facts had changed, but because the political \u2062party of the sitting president had \u2064changed,&#8221; Tuberville stated on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The top three choices for Space Command headquarters were all in red states \u2014 Alabama,\u200d Nebraska, and Texas. Colorado didn&#8217;t even come close. This decision to bypass the three most qualified sites looks like blatant patronage\u2063 politics, and it sets a dangerous\u2063 precedent that military\u200b bases are now to be used as rewards for political supporters rather than for our security,&#8221; Tuberville added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden and Senate Democrats have been engaged in a prolonged dispute with Tuberville, who has placed a hold on military nominations and promotions to protest the Pentagon&#8217;s policy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-vows-to-fight-bidens-space-command-decision-this-is-absolutely-not-over\/\" title=\"Tuberville promises to continue battling Biden's Space Command decision: 'It's far from finished.'\">reimbursing travel expenses related<\/a> to abortions. Concerns have been raised that these holds could eventually impact military readiness, a point Tuberville emphasized in response\u200b to the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden \u2062administration has \u200dbeen talking a\u2062 lot about readiness over the past few months, but no administration has done more to damage our military readiness in my lifetime,&#8221; Tuberville asserted. \u2064&#8221;They&#8217;ve politicized our military, destroyed our recruiting, misused our tax dollars for their extremist social agenda, and now they are putting Space\u2064 Command\u200d headquarters in a location that didn&#8217;t even make the top three. They \u2063are doing this at a time when space is \u2064only becoming more important for national \u200dsecurity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The senior senator from \u200bAlabama who claims to support our troops is now blocking more than 300 military operations with his extreme\u2063 political agenda,&#8221; Biden responded last week, taking a jab at Tuberville&#8217;s background as a football\u200c coach.<\/p>\n<p>According to a senior\u200c administration official, Gen. James \u200bDickinson, the head\u200b of Space Command, convinced \u200bBiden to keep \u200deverything in Colorado due to concerns that moving would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karina-mariotti-what-arms-shipments-to-ukraine-imply-for-us-security\/\" title=\"Karina Mariotti: What Arms Shipments to Ukraine Imply for US Security\">jeopardize military readiness<\/a>. The U.S. Space Command headquarters will achieve &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-kc-46-tankers-operating-on-natos-eastern-front\/\" title=\"U.S. KC-46 Tankers Operating on NATO\u2019s Eastern Front\">full operational capability<\/a>&#8221; in the coming weeks, while relocating it \u2064to Alabama would result in its opening in the early to mid-2030s, which\u2062 Biden deemed an &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; risk.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers from both Alabama and Colorado have been vying for their state to become the permanent base. Colorado lawmakers argue that it would take less time to bring the temporary base\u200c to full capacity compared to moving to Huntsville and establishing the base there. On the other hand, Alabama politicians reference the department&#8217;s initial decision \u2062and\u2063 a subsequent review of the process. Tuberville, who advocated for the move to Huntsville, is infuriated by the change.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama senator has pledged to continue his \u200befforts to\u2063 bring Space Command to Huntsville, although it remains uncertain what further actions\u200d he can\u200d take to influence the decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON\u200c EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) criticized President Biden for choosing to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado instead of relocating it to Alabama. Tuberville accused the administration of politicizing the decision, while emphasizing that the U.S. Space Command is distinct from the U.S. Space Force and is presently situated in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1987197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}