Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz doubled down on his calls for a U.S. Space Force to take on extraterrestrial pirates and existential threats.
Cruz, chairman and majority member of the Senate subcommittee on aviation and space, warned Congress Wednesday that pirates may soon be able to hurt the U.S. economy or attack the country from space. The Trump administration is seeking $2 billion from Congress in order to establish the new military branch, but they have failed to get additional financial support from House Democrats after Vice President Mike Pence first unveiled the Space Force plans at the Pentagon in August of last year.
The article was discussing the context surrounding Cruz's appeal for additional financing since House Democrats gained a majority and have soured on the additional military spending on top of the $10 billion currently being spent annually on undesignated space projects. Cruz compared the role of Space Force to that of the U.S. Navy defending commercial ships from pirates off the coast of Somalia or elsewhere.
Cruz's China warnings come after the country became the third on earth to land a probe, Chang'e 4, on the moon last January and the first to do so on the far side of Earth's lone moon. The move has led many to speculate a new"space race" with China, and not Russia, could continue into the future. Bondarev argued the creation of Trump’s Space Force would require the U.S. to abandon the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, an international agreement that establishes rules for the use and exploration of space. Bondarev added that should the U.S. break the treaty, it could spark an international arms race in outer space.
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