Colorado delegation says that moving Space Command to Alabama weakens our national security," Katie Britt disagrees

September 2, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Colorado said that President Donald J. Trump's decision to relocate Space Command from Colorado to Alabama's Redstone Arsenal will weaken national security. Meanwhile Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) praised the decision.

"Today's decision to move U.S Space Command's headquarters out of Colorado and to Alabama will directly harm our state and the nation" the Colorado lawmakers wrote. "We are united in fighting to reverse this decision. Bottom line-moving Space Command headquarters weakens our national security at the worst possible time.

They also argued that the move will cost taxpayers billions of dollars and ominously threatened to use legislative tricks to keep the Command in Colorado.

"Being prepared for any threats should be the nation's top priority," the Colorado lawmakers continued. "A crucial part of that is keeping in place what is already fully operational. Moving Space Command would not result in any addition tal operational capabilities than what we have up and running in Colorado Springs now. Colorado Springs is the appropriate home for U.S. Space Command, and we will take the necessary action to keep it there."

An independent review by the military determined that Redstone Arsenal was the best location for Space Command. That nonpartisan determination by experts was overruled for political considerations by then President Joseph R. Biden (D). Biden – who was suffering from cognitive decline – needed Colorado (which had supported him in 2020) to have any hope of hanging on to power in the approaching 2020 election. Ultimately his cognitive decline became so severe that even Democrats could not support his doomed bid for reelection leading him to withdraw from the race in favor of his Vice President – Kamala Harris. Colorado did vote for Harris, but it was not enough.

"As I have long stated, locating the permanent Space Command headquarters at Redstone Arsenal is in the best national security interest of the United States," said Senator Katie Britt. In 2021, the Air Force made a decision to choose Redstone as the preferred basing location purely on merits, as Huntsville finished first in both the Air Force's Evaluation Phase and Selection Phase. To the detriment of U.S. national security, President Biden chose to undermine the integrity of the process and put politics ahead of merit by yanking this military decision out of the Air Force's hands."

Senator Britt joined Senator Tuberville and most of the Alabama Congressional delegation for the public announcement by President Trump.

"I'm deeply grateful to President Trump and Secretary Hegseth for their commitment to keep politics out of this basing decision and allow the Air Force to proceed with doing its job," said Britt. "Alabama's world-class aerospace and defense workforce, capabilities, and synergies stand ready to fulfill the mission and strengthen our national security long into the future," the Senator concluded. "I'm proud that Alabama's congressional delegation – working tirelessly together on a bipartisan basis – has won this fight on behalf of our great state and America's national security interests."

The entire Alabama delegation has called for honoring the U.S. Air Force's announcement on January 13, 2021, naming Huntsville as its preferred location out of six candidate sites for U.S. Space Command HQ.

In May 2022, a report issued from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found Redstone Arsenal was ranked as "the highest scoring location in the Evaluation Phase, the highest ranked location in the Selection Phase, and the location with the most advantages in the decision matrix."

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