{"id":60649,"date":"2019-06-10T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/10\/house-panel-to-debate-counter-offer-to-trumps-space-force\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:29:42","slug":"house-panel-to-debate-counter-offer-to-trumps-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/06\/10\/house-panel-to-debate-counter-offer-to-trumps-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel to debate counteroffer to Trump\u2019s Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 The House Armed Services Committee will debate a new military branch for space as part of the annual defense policy bill, but it will be \u201csmaller and more focused\u201d than President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2019\/02\/19\/trump-signs-off-on-organizing-the-space-force-under-the-air-forcefor-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Force<\/a> proposal, the panel\u2019s chairman said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2018\/12\/20\/trumps-new-space-force-to-reside-under-department-of-the-air-force\/\" target=_blank>Like Trump\u2019s proposal<\/a>, the idea is to create an organization within the Department of the Air Force. House funding authorizers are expected to debate the matter Wednesday as an amendment during committee markup, HASC Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., told reporters Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe main difference is less bureaucracy,\u201d Smith said, adding that there would be fewer four-star generals, fewer mandatory transfers of personnel to Space Command and fewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2019\/03\/12\/heres-how-much-money-the-defense-department-wants-for-its-trio-of-new-space-organizations\/\" target=_blank>costs<\/a> overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith suggested the notion of a space service may suffer in the Democratic-controlled House due to its association with Trump, but he emphasized that the idea predates the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the suggestion its passage would hand a win to the Republican president, Smith said he did not care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is not President Trump\u2019s idea. Of the many bad ideas this president has had, don\u2019t think of this as: \u2018If you\u2019re for the Space Force, that means you 100 percent support President Trump,\u2019 \u201d Smith said. \u201cWe were talking about this long before the president knew Space Force even existed. He grabbed onto it, but it isn\u2019t about him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2019\/03\/13\/house-democrats-to-give-trumps-space-force-a-makeover\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1003471392.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">House Armed Services to give Trump\u2019s Space Force a makeover<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says the president&#039;s Space Force proposal will not survive his panel.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amendment will owe something to a scuttled bipartisan proposal authored in 2017 by current Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2019\/04\/08\/rep-jim-cooper-talks-trumps-space-force-takeover-and-whats-next-for-nukes-and-missile-defense\/\" target=_blank>Jim Cooper<\/a>, D-Tenn., and then-subcommittee chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala. On Monday, Smith echoed their view that the Air Force had not sufficiently prioritized space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think the Air Force has not done a particularly good job of managing space,\u201d Smith said. \u201cAnd if I was not in a breakfast setting with a bunch of reporters I would put that much less diplomatically. They\u2019re not doing a good job.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith left the proposal out of his section of the policy bill, which was finalized last week because members could not agree in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a very wide range of opinions, from \u2018hell no\u2019 to full Space Force,&#8221; a senior committee staffer said last week, &#8220;and that range of opinions covers both sides and stretches across the aisle,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration and Space Force proponents have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2019\/04\/09\/chinese-threats-necessitate-new-space-structures-shanahan-warns\/\" target=_blank>argued<\/a> a dedicated service is needed to counter Chinese and Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2018\/08\/09\/think-space-force-is-a-joke-here-are-four-major-space-threats-to-take-seriously\/\" target=_blank>threats<\/a> to America\u2019s space-based assets for satellite communications; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, as well as GPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee\u2019s approach is expected to differ from Senate authorizers, whose bill backs the formation of a new service, fully funded at $72.4 million. Still, its proposed structure differs from the White House\u2019s legislative proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"\/\/House%20appropriators%20want%20more%20information%20before%20they%20sign%20off%20on%20a%20sixth%20military%20branch%20for%20space,%20rejecting%20the%20Pentagon\u2019s%20request%20for%20$72%20million%20to%20build%20a%20Space%20Force%20headquarters.\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">House appropriators to Pentagon: Figure out an alternative to Space Force<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the administration\u2019s proposal, the Space Force would be organized under the Department of the Air Force. It would have a civilian undersecretary of the Air Force for space, who would report to the Air Force secretary. Its highest-ranking military officer, the Space Force chief of staff, would also report to the Air Force secretary and be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate Armed Services Committee\u2019s proposal, however, does not authorize an undersecretary of the Air Force for space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House and Senate are expected to reconcile their versions of the bill before it can pass Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Armed Services Committee will debate a new military branch for space as part of the 2020 defense policy 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