President reverses a Biden-era decision to keep it at temporary headquarters in Colorado Springs
President Donald Trump’s decision once again to move U.S. Space Command out of Colorado drew immediate condemnation across party lines from the state’s congressional delegation on Tuesday — and raised the specter of a legal challenge.
More than seven months after his return to office, Trump’s long-expected announcement that his administration would move the command to Alabama reversed a Biden-era decision to keep its headquarters in Colorado Springs. A military review previously had recommended the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, but the Republican president also invoked politics by saying one of the considerations was that voters in Colorado largely vote by mail.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said he was planning a legal challenge to try to stop the relocation. And in a joint statement, the state’s entire congressional delegation said the president’s decision “will directly harm our state and the nation.”
Space Command, the lawmakers stated, is “already fully operational” in Colorado Springs and relocating it “would not result in any additional operational capabilities.” The move “sets our space defense apparatus back years, wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, and hands the advantage to the converging threats of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea,” the delegation wrote.
I used to work for a Telecom company that was based out of Denver. Well Louisiana offered a big tax break to move it to their state. They had to offer people raises and bonuses to move there, and lock them into 2-3yr contracts. Once down there a buddy of mine was tasked with training new hires. They could only retain about two weeks of information. A few years later the company merged with another and the CEO of the new company said screw Louisiana and moved everything back to Denver.
Ah the L3 - > CTL - > Lumen saga
That’s the one.
What did you do there if you don’t mind me asking? Feel free to respond in DM or not at all if you’d prefer not to say. I ask because I worked there as well and I’m overly curious by nature haha
Be aware that Lemmy DMs are effectively public. There’s no encryption and they have to get federated. So if you run a server…
that’s a dumb way to handle dms.
Oh interesting, I had not heard that before. That is good to know.
There’s an option in your profile for “Matrix User”, which I think is for that reason? But don’t quote me on the security of Matrix. Generally I use Signal.
Worked in Transport then out in the field as CO tech and then back to Transport. I took my ride when they moved my NOC to Atlanta. Funny enough after a few years they made Bright Speed and hired a several of us back and let them work from home instead of Atlanta. As for me, I had already moved on to bigger and better things.
I see why they ended up fucking people over with price for life deals that suddenly never existed when the time came for price increases to start happening. Seems in line.