The House Committee on Armed Services is gearing up for a Thursday hearing on the Biden administration's decision to leave the U.S. Space Command headquarters where it is.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the committee, will head the hearing at 10 a.m. EDT on the decision to keep the headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The headquarters was supposed to be moved to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, Rogers' home state.
However, President Joe Biden sided early last month with a proposal by Gen. James Dickinson, commander of the Space Command, to keep it in Colorado, Politico reported at the time.
Republicans on the panel are preparing now to take on the officials responsible for the move, which could determine whether around 1,400 jobs and an estimated $1 billion yearly output will benefit a red state, Alabama, or a blue state, Colorado.
"We will get answers on President Biden's political manipulation of the selection process," Rogers stated in an August press release announcing the hearings.
Biden "usurped the Air Force secretary's authority and named Colorado Springs the permanent basing site for U.S. Space Command in order to improve his political standing for next year's reelection," he added.
The administration claimed it ditched the Huntsville proposal laid out during former President Donald Trump's tenure to maintain military readiness, noting that the relocation could take well into the 2030s.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said shortly after the decision was announced that it was not political in nature.
"It had everything to do with making sure that Space Command could, in an undisrupted way, continue to operate at peak readiness levels in what is one of the most critical domains across the spectrum of military domains," Kirby said.
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