Mod: Tea Nut Ted is a nuttier than a fruitcake, as most earthlings know. But he is also the only U.S. Senator who can comb his hair with his tongue while keeping both eyes upward in a vigilant search for space pirates.
Ted Cruz warns 'Space Force' needed to prevent space pirates (
The Hilllink):
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said this week that it was important to fund
President Trump's proposed "
Space Force" in order to prevent possible space pirates.
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“Since the ancient
Greeks first put to sea, nations have recognized the necessity of naval forces and maintaining a superior capability to protect waterborne travel and commerce from bad actors,”
Cruz, the chairman of the subcommittee on aviation and space, said at a hearing Tuesday. “
Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way, I believe we too must now recognize the necessity of a
Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration,”
Cruz said.
The
Trump administration's current plan to create
Space Force would cost more than $2 billion to get off the ground, according to a report from the
Congressional Budget Office.
The report found that a
Space Force military branch would need 5,400 to 7,800 in new personnel for overhead and management, adding more than $1 billion to the Pentagon's annual costs.
Trump proposed creating
Space Force within the
Air Force, similar to how the
Marine Corps operates with the
Navy. The
Pentagon, however, has said
Space Force should exist as its own branch of the military, arguing its necessity is inevitable as
China and
Russia sharpen their focus on space.
A defense spending bill would give $15 million to study the implementation of
Space Force but would not go towards creating it as a branch of the military.
Only
Congress can create a new military branch, but
Trump has signed off on the set-up of the
U.S. Space Command. Lawmakers have demonstrated skepticism over the administration’s
Space Force plans, questioning the specifics of the
Trump proposal and the need for a new service at all.
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