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Pentagon surveyors met with San Antonio officials this week to discuss the city’s bid to house U.S. Space Command. San Antonio is one of six finalists competing for its new headquarters.
Since May, the city has waged a public campaign to attract the unified command, which pulls from the different military branches and oversees operations in space. It’s provisionally headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and employs about 1,400 people.
In a virtual meeting Monday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg, City Manager Erik Walsh and other local officials took questions from a Pentagon site selection team about San Antonio’s candidacy, focusing on factors like its infrastructure, existing military missions, quality of life and community support.
South Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar has sent a letter to the incoming Biden administration that calls on the president-elect to rescind all of the Trump administration actions related to building a border wall.
The letter signed by 34 other House members urges Biden to end Trump’s national emergency declaration and stop the redirection of military money to border wall construction.
Cuellar also asks the Biden administration to terminate all federal wall construction contracts, to dismiss all land condemnation lawsuits, and rescind all environmental waivers. Cuellar says federal monies should be used for smart border security measures.
Other Texas Congress members signing the letter were McAllen Representative Vicente Gonzalez, Joaquin Castro, Veronica Escobar, and Sylvia Garcia.