Trump’s Air Force secretary calls for warfighting focus to build Space Force budget

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As the Biden administration prepares its first defense budget, the Space Force is playing catch-up.

The new service will have its own budget, separate from the Air Force’s spending plan, and will have to chase some threats posed by adversaries to better protect America’s space assets, said Heather Wilson, one of former President Donald Trump’s Air Force secretaries.

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