President Trump to sign directive approving scaled-back Space Force

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News


Congress will have the final say on whether a "Space Force" is established.

By Alexander Mallin and Elizabeth McLaughlin19m ago

President Donald Trump is set to sign a new directive Tuesday aimed at formally establishing a new space-focused military branch that will begin as an extension of the U.S. Air Force, yet another step toward making the “Space Force” a reality.

Trump, on the campaign trail and elsewhere, had originally touted that the Space Force would work as its own branch on par with the status of the Air Force, Army and Navy, promising "American dominance in space."

But the ‘Space Policy Directive 4’ has been scaled back from that and puts it more in line with the status of the Marine Corps under the Navy – a route seen as more palatable to skeptics in Congress.

“We haven’t abandoned that goal, and I think we’re achieving what is the president’s number one objective which is a separate armed service,” a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call outlining the legislative proposal Tuesday.



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[Dennis Donovan]

1. SPACEFORCE!

[thegoose]

2. Another idiot conjob project

From the king of fucking idiots..

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. What SPACE FARCE???????

Did Trump watch SPACE BALLS by Mel Brooks over the weekend?

[mac56]

4. They have a song already.

[Ohiogal]

5. This is what the new funding will allow for

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. The test pilot for Space Force rockets has been selected.

[slingsam]

7. What's he claiming? That the Martians are going to be paying for it??

[Ohiogal]

10. ....

[3Hotdogs]

11. It's the Klingons. Only a Libtard would protest defending against the Klingons and the Romulans.

Do you really need an emoticon?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. "In 2017 the "US Space Corps" was a bipartisan proposal...within the Dept of the Air Force"

In 2017 the "United States Space Corps" was bipartisan proposal by Republican Representative Mike Rogers and Democratic Representative Jim Cooper as separate service within the Department of the Air Force, with its head as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This concept would have been similar how the United States Marine Corps is a separate service within the Department of the Navy.
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President Donald Trump first suggested a Space Force during a speech in March 2018: "We're doing a tremendous amount of work in space – I said, maybe we need a new force. We'll call it the Space Force."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force

So, basically, forget the narcissist squatting in the White House; go back to what Congress was trying to work out without him.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "Congress will have the final say on whether a 'Space Force' is established"

Dafuq???



It already IS Congress's job to create agencies and departments, NOT the Executive Branch.

So yes, Congress "will have the final say".