The House Armed Services Committee expects to hear some of the nation’s top military leaders discuss their involvement Thursday in President Biden’s decision to make Colorado the U.S. Space Command’s permanent home. That White House decision came instead of moving the headquarters to Huntsville, which ranked highest in the Pentagon’s official base comparison.

The hearing’s stated purpose is to “receive testimony from government witnesses regarding irregularity in the strategic basing process for the U.S. Space Command.” It begins at 10 a.m. Washington time (9 a.m. Alabama time) and can be watched live here.

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall III is scheduled to testify along with Space Command commander Gen. James H. Dickinson and Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of operations of the U.S. Space Force.

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Alabama), chair of the Armed Services Committee, called the hearing. Rogers has called Biden’s decision “egregious meddling in our national security” and “driven by far-left politics, not national security.”

Colorado is a blue state, Alabama is a red state and Biden faces a re-election campaign in 2024. Losing a blue state could hurt the president’s re-election chances; red state Alabama doesn’t factor in his plan to win another term. But the White House says the president believes putting the base to work in a permanent home is important for American security in a world where communications, mapping and monitoring satellites are critical and growing in number.

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong, R-Huntsville, has said, “The way the Biden administration and Department of Defense leadership has handled the Space Command situation is something that should worry every state.

“Allowing the Air Force to conduct an expensive and long basing process, only to undermine it when it’s decision time, threatens the credibility of the DOD and sets a dangerous precent for all future military decisions,” Strong said. “I’ve certainly got a lot of questions I’m ready to ask.”

Dickinson reportedly supported the Colorado decision although U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Strong said in June that Dickinson had “confirmed” and “assured” them “the headquarters should be on Redstone Arsenal.” That happened at a meeting with the Alabama congressional delegation, the lawmakers said.

The Washington Post first reported Biden’s decision to leave the command in Colorado July 31 saying a headquarters move at this point would “be too disruptive to military readiness.” The Post also said the command’s estimated 1,400 jobs would have an almost $1 billion annual impact on Colorado’s economy.

Kendall had recommended to Biden that the move to Alabama go forward, the story said.