Alabama Won’t Be the Home of Space Command HQ, AL Senators React

Huntsville is the home of the Red Stone arsenal and was scheduled to be the home of the Space Command headquarters. However, President Joe Biden decided this week to leave Space Command headquarters in Colorado.

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Military advisors recommended that the President not move the headquarters to Huntsville The Washington Post said Monday. They felt it would be better to leave it where it was instead of using money, time and resources to move to Alabama.

Alabama Senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt have sharply criticized the decision.

"President Biden has irresponsibly decided to yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics,” Britt said via a release.

“Huntsville finished first in both the Air Force’s Evaluation Phase and Selection Phase, leaving no doubt that the Air Force’s decision to choose Redstone as the preferred basing location was correct purely on the merits.”

Senator Tommy Tuberville added, “As soon as Joe Biden took office, he paused movement on that decision and inserted politics into what had been a fair and objective competition--not because the facts had changed, but because the political party of the sitting president had changed.”

Congressional members from Colorado applauded Biden's decision to keep Space Command Headquarters at its current location, CBS News Reported.