{"id":127507,"date":"2025-09-02T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127507\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:24:07","slug":"trump-to-announce-space-force-headquarters-moving-to-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127507\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to announce Space Force headquarters moving to Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is expected to announce US Space Command is relocating to Alabama after President Joe Biden canceled plans to build the military branch\u2019s headquarters in the Southern state.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/02\/us-news\/trump-live-updates-news-sept-2-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump would be making a \u201cdefense-related\u201d announcement<\/a> at 2 p.m. in the Oval Office, and the Pentagon\u2019s streaming website indicates it will be a \u201cUS Space Command HQ Announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36997925\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/furnished-updated-signage-building-1-110543397.jpg\" alt=\"Hartinger Building, Headquarters Space Operations Command, Peterson Space Force Base.\" class=\"wp-image-36997925\"  \/>President Trump is expected to announce US Space Command is relocating to Alabama after President Joe Biden canceled plans to build the military branch\u2019s headquarters in the Southern state. Space Operations Command<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey teased that the move was coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace Command coming to Huntsville? Count on it,\u201d Ivey posted to X on Thursday. \u201cHuntsville was already chosen once before as the home for U.S. Space Command \u2014 and for good reason. I remain confident that Alabama is the right place for this mission to take root and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36997937\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/space-force-command-senior-enlisted-110543398.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation of the United States Space Force flag in the Oval Office.\" class=\"wp-image-36997937\"  \/>Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman (R),  Space Force and Command Senior Enlisted Leader, and CMSgt Roger Towberman (L), with Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, present US President Donald Trump with the official flag of the United States Space Force in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2020.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump had ordered the Space Force headquarters be moved from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Huntsville in the final months of his first term in office \u2014 only for Biden to overturn the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans accused Biden of canceling the move for political reasons, as his administration aimed to avoid building new military facilities in states with abortion restrictions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump is expected to announce US Space Command is relocating to Alabama after President Joe Biden canceled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[12,56851,111,79,193,13059,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-127507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-live-blogs","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-space-program","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}