WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its current headquarters in Colorado and prompting sharp criticism from state officials.

“This is the wrong decision, diminishing military readiness and national security and eroding the trust Americans have in our country and its leaders to do the right thing,” Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement. “Uprooting Space Command will weaken national security and readiness, waste taxpayer dollars, and inconvenience military families.”

The entire Colorado congressional contingent, including all Republicans and Democrats, pushed back at the decision.

“Today’s decision to move U.S Space Command’s headquarters out of Colorado and to Alabama wil

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