Ted Cruz warns Space Force is needed to battle extraterrestrial pirates

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued a dire warning about space pirates Wednesday in support of appropriations to fund Space Force, President Trump’s proposed off-planet expansion of the U.S. military.

For starters, the Trump administration is seeking $2 billion in new funding from Congress for the creation of Space Force. The new military branch is projected to number about 15,000, most of whom will be transferred from existing positions. In future years its annual budget could amount to an additional $500 million over the $10 billion already being spent on unclassified space programs, Defense News reported.

When Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives, however, the prospects for Space Force grew uncertain. In March, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, tried to temper Space Force expectations.

Are you waiting for ET to phone you and the tell you if extraterrestrials exist.

Send cruz

idiot

Try reporting what he actually said!

We have someone for that already.

So you guys are in the business of blatantly lying right now? He said nothing of the sort and you know it. Try learning about force multipliers before you make asses of yourselves. A prime example of why yahoo is irrelevant.

Need to launch trump into space with his space force and leave him there

Watch out for Jabba.

Hey, Brits. Can you lend us Dr. Who?

Trump promised him his own tinfoil hat if Cruz promoted this idea

Not nearly the weirdest thing I've ever heard him day...

The video clip is setup to show bias obviously. I can't believe how many people didn't check out cspan to at least see the whole video before commenting. writerknowles knew what he was doing & it shows how poor of a journalist he really is.. 8th graders do better research.

Maybe if the Author did a little more research, he would understand what tedcruz is talking about. SLOC-S (Sea Lines of Communication in Space) or what is not referred to as Spacepower Theory. Another fine example of BadJournalism

Poorly written article, the author doesn't quote properly, eg: writes 'interplanetary commerce' when tedcruz said 'space commerce'. No research into what Senator Cruz referenced, a naval term called SLOC (Sea Lines of Communication). Ted took the concept & applied it to space.

Arrrgh we'll play until the last ship is plundered!

Lies.

The ones that stole your brain, Ted? Let it go. They did you a favor removing a defective part.

My god, how did he ever beat Beto!!

Idiots

tedcruz

What about Space Cowboys? GangsterOfLove Maurice

lol tedcruz

the is the same mocking tone the media/left used against Reagan's 'Star Wars' proposal in the 80's. the media/left are wrong this time too.

Seriously looked ridiculous talking about sky pirates...lmao..anything to please trump even if it makes you look crazy

Yahoo lost readers years ago...

Why can't he just worry about the people on earth?

This is who represents Texas?! For fucks sake.

The real reason is to get the Infinity Stones.

Change your name to YahooClickbait

what drugs r u on?

These are the extraterrestrial pirates Ted Cruz is talking about.

If Ted is in charge we'll be outclassed before the battles start :)

Gave up on journalisting today and went with this huh?

And the lame-brain from Texas chimes in ! WE GOT A SPACE AGENCY and it’s in TEXAS. It’s called N🚀A🚀S🚀A ! We don’t knead you rich elitists white republicans spending our Grandchildren’s money on another Trump wet dream. NASA ! It’s in your adopted hometown ! HOUSTON not HAVANA

Finally a Spaceballs 2 ! Starring Republicans Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Candice Owens as the heroes and AOC, AOC parody, and Little AOC as the villians, of course I think little AOC gonna switch sides!

Seen any?

fakenews

To help all of the blind hate idiots here... 'extraterrestrial' is an adjective. It includes all things outside our atmosphere, including any rogue state satellites or space weapons.

No he didn’t. Ask your intern who wrote the headline to do a quick google search for the definitions of big words, then ask an adult, before they post.

Fake news clickbait

Please take him back to your planet

You all stealing stories from TheOnion now?

tedcruz Why people vote for these Clowns?

Your bias is showing.

2 likes.. haha 6 retweets.. at some time do you just stop being bias and just report

Fake news. He was talking about China and Russia using technology to attack and destroy satellites which they have already developed and tested...🙄. A complete and utter failure of journalism here.

Leaked image of this headline being written

Get your sword. You will need it when they come after you.

He Setting up privates

Is he promoting a new movie?

Probably more effective than any plan to battle Climate Change. .tedcruz

Yepppp!!! storage wars..// some coasttocoastam fans and listeners and Guests.. believe that Ets and aliens of many names have Pirated away humans and done studies.. But could the new Russian defense system anti-F35 solve the alien stealth. No word on the test date., POTUS

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