Rep. Mike Rogers: Air Force is trying to ‘gold-plate’ Trump’s Space Force proposal

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The Air Force is trying to “gold-plate” and derail President Trump’s plan for a new Space Force military service with its $13 billion cost estimate, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said Thursday.

The public should “not get too concerned” with estimates and proposals for the Space Force because Congress has not yet seen a finalized plan or decided what the military service will actually look like, said Rogers, a House Armed Services subcommittee chairman, who was speaking at the Aspen Institute.

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