President Biden seemed to take delight in Tommy Tuberville celebrating an initiative he didn’t vote for that will funnel $1.4 billion to expand internet access in Alabama in a tweet Wednesday.

‘Broadband is vital for the success of our rural communities and for our entire economy,’ Tuberville wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. ‘Great to see Alabama receive crucial funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts.’

Twitter added a community note to the tweet that read: ‘Senator Tuberville voted against the bill that is providing this funding.’ 

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) had just released funding allocations for each state’s broadband projects. 

In August 2021, 19 Republicans joined Democrats in voting to pass the INVEST in America Act – the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Tuberville was not one of them. 

The senator said at the time he voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill because it is ‘loaded with giveaways to big cities and pet projects that have little to do with real infrastructure.’ 

Biden quote-tweeted Tuberville and wrote: ‘See you at the groundbreaking.’

‘The groundbreaking for Space Command in Huntsville?’ Tuberville quipped. 

 Later during a speech on ‘Bidenomics’ in Chicago the president again shouted out Tuberville. 

‘There’s a guy named Tuberville, Senator from Alabama, went out and said he strongly opposed the legislation. Now he’s hailing its passage.’

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The former Auburn football coach and other Alabama lawmakers have argued that Huntsville, not Colorado Springs, Colo., is the best location for the new headquarters of the U.S. Space Force. 

Asked why he praised initiativces that were part of a bill he voted against, Tuberville’s communications director Steven Stafford said: ‘Coach voted against the infrastructure bill because it wasted Alabamians’ tax dollars. It spent too much to get too little in return for Alabama.

‘But now that it is law of the land, the people of Alabama deserve their fair share. Coach is proud to advocate for this funding to go to Alabama.’

Tuberville has long advocated for rural broadband access and is the top Republican on the Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy. 

The Air Force and Space Force initially recommended Colorado Springs for the headquarters, but in the final days of his administration Donald Trump ordered the headquarters to be placed in Huntsville. 

Critics claimed that Trump moved the HQ out of Colorado because voters there did not back him in 2020 – proponents have noted Huntsville is already home to many aerospace companies. 

Reports arose in May that Biden wanted to keep the headquarters in Colorado due to Alabama’s restrictive abortion laws. Publicly the White House said it wanted to keep the headquarters there because there is already a Space Force base there. 

Tuberville and Biden have already been locked in a political skirmish over the Pentagon’s policy of paying for the travel of service members stationed in states where abortion is illegal who need to travel to another state where they can get the procedure. 

Tuberville has placed a hold on promotions within DoD which he says he will not lift until the Pentagon rescinds the policy or Congress votes it down. 

Biden was asked about the hold before boarding Marine One to travel to Chicago Wednesday. 

‘He’s not budging on it,’ Biden told reporters. ‘It’s totally inappropriate. It’s outrageous.’ 

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