Hickenlooper Questions Trump’s Space Academy Announcement

Hickenlooper: "Trump's proposed plan is duplicative, costly, and unserious."

OURAY - Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper raised questions about President Trump's new plan to create a U.S. Space Academy. President Trump announced plans to establish the academy earlier today at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

"President Trump's proposed plan is duplicative, costly, and unserious.

Establishing a dedicated service academy for space may sound good on paper, but our nation already has an exceptional institution that trains tomorrow's Space Force leaders: it's called the U.S. Air Force Academy.

To duplicate that effort at a time when our national deficit is soaring, is reckless and makes a dire situation even worse.

Colorado Springs is already the epicenter of our national security and space efforts. This unnecessary proposal is yet another example of the president seeking to distract from his illegal war in Iran and the economic pain it has caused everyday Americans."

Hickenlooper has consistently fought to protect Colorado's role as the backbone of the nation's space defense architecture. He denounced the Trump administration's irresponsible and wasteful decision to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama and joined a statement with the entire Colorado congressional delegation rebuking the relocation.

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