Fresh off the heels of a major win for the State of Alabama with the announcement that the Trump Administration will permanently return Space Command headquarters to its original home in Huntsville, U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) took a victory lap in praise of Alabama.
“What this means for the community, what this means for small business, and what this means for Huntsville, this process has shown us the worst of Washington, D.C., Dale, and I believe that Huntsville is going to show America the very best of our country,” Britt said of the move.
Despite universal excitement from Alabama lawmakers, leaders in Colorado — the state Space Command will soon leave behind — have lashed out at Trump, with the state’s Attorney General even threatening legal action in an attempt to stop the move.
“When you look at Colorado, I mean, back on kind of talking about football, I mean, we knew that was a bad call on the field that was going to go to the booth and get overturned, and that’s exactly what happened,” Britt said on Wednesday.
“I mean, you had President Trump put out, you know, people didn’t like the first decision, so he said, ‘Okay, here’s the metrics we’re going to do. We’re going to re-compete. We’re going to do a nationwide competition.’ Guess what? Alabama won.”
Britt lambasted the Biden Administration’s 2023 decision to locate Space Command in Colorado Springs over numerous official government recommendations and questioned if then-President Biden was even fully aware of the situation.
“Queue Joe Biden administration comes in… Then their Secretary of the Air Force says, ‘Yes, Alabama — Redstone Arsenal — is where it needs to be.’ Then, President Biden decided to inject politics,” Britt said.
“…Here’s the deal. Now, looking at this, who knows if President Biden even actually made that call? I mean, we know that autopen-in-chief was in, you know, kind of sort of full-effect. So who knows who made the decision to pull it from Alabama, a red state, and then give it to, you know, the first blue state on the list, which was on down the list, Colorado?”
Putting past grievances aside, the Senator expressed optimism about Space Command’s future in Huntsville.
“At the end of the day, we know this is about national security, and this is about the war-fighter, and this is going to be tremendous, obviously, for our nation, but it’s a big day for Alabama, because the multiplier of this and what this means, taking all of the incredible work that is done at Redstone, placing this in its midst, we know that war-fighting in the 21st Century is is going to happen, much of it, in space. And so for that connectivity to be right here in Alabama is huge for us.”
Riley McArdle is a contributor for Yellowhammer News. He is a Senior majoring in Political Science at the University of Alabama and currently serves as Chairman of the College Republican Federation of Alabama. You can follow him on X @rileykmcardle.
