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Armed services committees caught off guard by Trump’s Space Force order

By Travis J. Tritten

Published June 18, 2018 10:13pm ET

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Armed services committees caught off guard by Trump’s Space Force order — President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. | (Patrick Semansky/AP)

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees were not notified ahead of time that President Trump would order the Pentagon on Monday to create a Space Force military service, aides in both chambers said.

Members from both sides of the aisle on the panels that oversee the Pentagon and craft military policy immediately pointed out that Trump will need action from Congress to make the new service a reality.

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