US President Donald Trump speaks on September 2, 2025 in Washington, DC, in the Oval Office of the White House. The US Senator Katie Britt, R-Ala is on the left. On the right, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and US Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Washington – President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the US world space command will permanently move to Huntsville, Alabama, and will vacate his momentary headquarters in Colorado.
The move returns to Trump’s plans during his first government to localize the combative command in Alabama to monitor the space force, the military branch he founded in 2019.
Space Force headquarters have since operated From the Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. The location of the command was political for years battle.
“As you know, this has been a long time, and I am very pleased that the US Space Command headquarters will change to the stunning area scheme of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, to know on Tuesday afternoon by Alabama Republicans in the Oval Office on Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon.
“We love Alabama. I only won it with about 47 points. I don’t think that influenced my decision,” he said. (Trumpf won According to The Associated Press, the nine choice of College in Alabama is right in November with 31 percentage points. Former Vice President Kamala Harris won Colorados 10 election college voting by 11 percentage points.)
Trump said his plans to root the space command in the Redstone arsenal in Huntsville, “were wrongly disabled by the Biden administration”.
In July 2023, the Biden administration decided to keep the space command in Colorado Springs in order to ensure “top readiness in the space area”, according to a general report by the Ministry of Defense published in April 2025. report It was not conclusive as to why the Air Force did not put the decision back despite the preference of the Department of Alabama.
“Today we proceed with what we want to do and the place we want to have, and hopefully this will be hundreds of years,” said Trump. “I will say I want to thank Colorado. The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do an email-in-vote. They went to all mail-in-votes so that they have automatically selected elections.”
Since his loss of election against Biden in 2020, Trump has repeated unfounded claims on mail-in voting slips and their effects on the elections.
Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said that the president was “restored (space command) to be exactly where he should be”.
“Anyone who controls the sky will control the future of warfare and Mr. President today. Today they make sure this will happen,” said Hegseth.
Alabama’s Republicans are elated about the space command
Alabama’s Republican US -Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt both praised the president when they were standing next to him in the Oval Office.
“Mr President, we are grateful for their leadership in this and the restoration of the space command in his lawful home in Huntsville, Alabama,” said Britt, adding the accusation that “the bidges administered obviously decided to make this political”.
Tuberville said the move would save the taxpayer $ 480 million. States Newsroom did not check this number independently, and the April -IG report has not specified any specific moving costs. He also emphasized the presence of NASA in Huntsville as an advantage.
“I have spoken to the president about it in the past three or four years. If I thought it had to go somewhere because (from) the security of our country, I would be for it. But the best place for the space command is Huntsville, Alabama, because what we have and what it means for this country,” Tuberville becomes so critical.
Colorado AG’s lawsuit sworn
But the officials chosen from Colorado do not withdraw. Colorado governor Jared Polis, a democrat, described the decision as “deeply disappointing” for his state and “a waste of taxpayers dollars”.
The Attorney General of Colorado, Phil Weiser, said in a statement on Tuesday that he planned to bring the administration about the “illegal” move to court, which he described as “political games”.
“The headquarters of the space command to Alabama is not only wrong for our national defense, but also for hundreds of space command opera and their families. These residents of the district of El Paso are our neighbors. They have rely on the decision of the federal government to keep the Space Command headquarters in Colorado -they bought houses for their families, selected schools and have selected schools and have local economy contributed. ” Said Weiser.
“In Colorado’s office in Colorado, the President has prepared that the president has made such an illegal decision to move the space command. If the Trump administration takes this step, I am ready to question it in court.”
Colorado’s entire cross -party congress delegation published a statement on Tuesday in which he had convicted the relocation announcement.
“The current decision to move the headquarters of the space command from Colorado and Alabama will harm our state and the nation directly. We are united to reverse this decision. Conclusion.
