{"id":19711,"date":"2023-05-16T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2023-05-16T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:52:43","slug":"tuberville-biden-puts-politics-over-national-security-by-not-moving-space-command-to-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=19711","title":{"rendered":"Tuberville: Biden &#8216;puts politics over national security&#8217; by not moving space command to Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O3LTNMBVSFAFZI7P3KUCTHZ6E4\">President Biden is &#8220;putting politics above national security&#8221; amid a report that the administration is reversing a decision to move the Space Command headquarters to Alabama because of the state&#8217;s abortion ban, he Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JIW2A3FAX5EWDMPHUF44AJ2G44\">&#8220;Multiple independent, nonpartisan government reviews have found that the Space Command headquarters would be best served in Huntsville,&#8221; said Tuberville, who along with the rest of Alabama&#8217;s congressional delegation championed the effort to convert the state in the permanent headquarters of the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ONX3UTZNJZBNPFKLZGGS3V4ZYI\">The administration has &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/military\/biden-admin-may-halt-move-space-command-alabama-abortion-law-rcna84336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicated to the Pentagon and lawmakers that they want to reverse the decision&#8221; to move the headquarters of the Space Command to Alabama, NBC News reported Monday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T5UEBUKX5ZD57NE6WIIATUXQYA\">Alabama&#8217;s strict abortion ban played a role in the decision, an unnamed administration official told the outlet.  Abortion is illegal today in Alabama unless there is a serious risk to the mother&#8217;s health of the fetus.  A new law proposed in the state legislature would prosecute abortion as murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GNZDKMDTVJGHPBLAGHEWHJDPTE\">&#8220;They are delaying any movement because of the abortion issue,&#8221; referring to the White House and another unnamed US official who said: &#8220;This is about abortion policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YIIYJHL7RZENFAPTFYOFPXM6EM\">Tuberville has blocked more than 180 military nominations over Defense Department policies that expand access to abortion.  The senator has claimed the policies are illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7WPOT4NLTBC7PNYRDDA6C27JDA\">An official told NBC News that the senator&#8217;s decision is not to blame for the administration&#8217;s decision on Space Command, though the official said it is &#8220;not helping,&#8221; referring to Tuberville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"R67XEGF2NVCGHK4IZFY2PYSDFE\">Another official said the Biden administration was delaying the announcement that the Space Command headquarters would remain in Colorado because they &#8220;don&#8217;t want to further aggravate Tuberville.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BAL43MC2BRABREHIAFWMZEIISY\">The senator could not immediately be reached for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2023\/05\/tuberville-biden-putting-politics-above-national-security-by-not-moving-space-command-to-alabama.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is &#8220;putting politics above national security&#8221; amid a report that the administration is reversing a decision to move the Space Command headquarters to Alabama because of the state&#8217;s abortion ban, he Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Monday. &#8220;Multiple independent, nonpartisan government reviews have found that the Space Command headquarters would be best served in Huntsville,&#8221; said Tuberville, who along with the rest of Alabama&#8217;s congressional delegation championed the effort to convert the state in the permanent headquarters of the agency. The administration has &#8220;indicated to the Pentagon and lawmakers that they want to reverse the decision&#8221; to move the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19713,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions\/19713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}