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Donald Trump officially launches US Space Force [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Donald Trump officially launches US Space Force
Associated Press in Washington
Sat 21 Dec 2019 09.57 GMT
Last modified on Sat 21 Dec 2019 10.27 GMT
Donald Trump has launched Space Force – the first new military service in more than 70 years.
In signing the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that includes space force, Trump claimed a victory for one of his top national security priorities just two days after being impeached by the House.
It is part of a $1.4tn government spending package – including the Pentagon’s budget – that provides a steady stream of financing for Trump’s US-Mexico border fence and reverses unpopular and unworkable automatic spending cuts to defence and domestic programmes.
“Space is the world’s new war-fighting domain,” Trump said during a signing ceremony at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington. “Among grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital. And we’re leading, but we’re not leading by enough, and very shortly we’ll be leading by a lot.”
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Associated Press in Washington
Sat 21 Dec 2019 09.57 GMT
Last modified on Sat 21 Dec 2019 10.27 GMT
Donald Trump has launched Space Force – the first new military service in more than 70 years.
In signing the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that includes space force, Trump claimed a victory for one of his top national security priorities just two days after being impeached by the House.
It is part of a $1.4tn government spending package – including the Pentagon’s budget – that provides a steady stream of financing for Trump’s US-Mexico border fence and reverses unpopular and unworkable automatic spending cuts to defence and domestic programmes.
“Space is the world’s new war-fighting domain,” Trump said during a signing ceremony at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington. “Among grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital. And we’re leading, but we’re not leading by enough, and very shortly we’ll be leading by a lot.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/21/donald-trump-officially-launches-us-space-force
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