OMAHA- A complaint from Colorado Springs is being made loudly after President Trump hurried the decision to make Huntsville, Alabama the permanent headquarters of the U.S. Space Command. Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska were both frontrunners for the new base.

Rumors out of Colorado are saying the president overturned the Air Force Secretary's recommendation to name Peterson Air Force Base as the site for a political favor to deep-red voters in Alabama. Huntsville has been the center of the Army's missile program, as well as NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Backers of the Peterson and Offutt bids claim that this is located in Rep. Mo Brooks district, one of Trump's biggest supporters to date. Colorado Springs representative Doug Lamborn, a Republican who was once a Trump loyalist, called the decision "horrendous."

Nebraska's congressional delegation declined to comment on the situation but are intending to ask Biden to take another look. Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who represented Nebraska in the Senate, said he would not be surprised if political trumped military necessity in this decision.

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