On the overall nature of Galaxy in InnersPace Brewing in Huntsville, ALA. Stewart Money he heard all this recently from government engineers and contractors who are over after work. They have expressed concern about how the discounts on the federal workforce affect their functions in the city and relevant industries, and they expected that defense investments during President Trump may stimulate more growth there.
“You want to use an analogy, it is similar to the launch of a missile that has not been proven.” “You don’t know what will happen, but something will happen.”
There is no doubt that Huntville, the home of the Marshall Space Center, and a network of related companies and research programs, felt some tremors from the aggressive campaign of the administration to reduce the federal workforce. The resignation of “FORK In The Road” in email boxes to the email boxes there, and submitting NASA and other government employees with a difficult issue about whether their jobs will be remained at the present time. There was Reports on more traffic At Arsenal Redstone’s sprawling base after workers were assigned to be personal.
But Mr. Moni’s talks with clients during the first month of Mr. Trump in his post indicate that despite a lot of uncertainty, there is cautious optimism that his actions can help the missile city in general.
“Maybe the defense budget will not shrink,” said Jake Griffin, the government contract consultant there, I don’t think we will see a real economic contraction anytime soon in Huntville. “
In reference to Mr. Trump’s declared goal of reducing government waste, Mr. Griffin added that if the administration “returns some of those dollars that are lost to the defense budget, I think Huntville has a chance of Adhar more again.”
Once an agricultural axis known as water and cotton and Production butter fracture recordHuntsville began to turn into a flying pies such as Wernher von Braun, who was previously the leading missile world of the Nazis, and his team developed missiles that were decisive to APollo tasks in the 1960s and 1970s.
There is now one of the highest number of engineers for the individual in the country, and its air reputation is freed: there are murals of colored spaces spread around it, and satellite references in everything from restaurants to the baseball team in the local league. (MR. Money’s Bar offers both “Sky Farmer” and “Artemis IPA”)
city More than 225,000 People and the surrounding boycott are less conservative than most Alabama: 54 percent of Madison Province, which includes Huntville, voted for Mr. Trump, compared to 65 percent of the state in general.
More than half of about 40,000 federal civilian employees in Alabama live in the Congress area, which includes Hunsfelle, According to Congress research service As of March 2024. There are also thousands of workers whose jobs are associated with government contracts and can be affected.
“It is a form, hey, how does all this affect you?” Jeff Grunberg, CEO of Dessippel Research, said one of many defensive contracts companies closely, about talking about the city. “It is very early in the process that you can really say, we are trying to track things better.”
Many federal workforce in Huntville Persenal Redston, the military base. Former Senator Richard C. Shelby, a Republican with legendary ingenuity to allocate and send money to his mandate. Al Qaeda now includes the space center, FBI offices, army missile programs and missile research.
“It is very natural that you are worried about these times, because they do not know,” Mayor Tommy Battle, a Republican, said in an interview, referring to government workers. But he added: “We have a good wallet and it is varied. It is varied enough if one area falls, another area rises.”
More than 6,200 people are working in the aviation center alone, where about 2,300 of them were classified as federal civilian employees at NASA. There are remaining memories of the demobilization of the past workers: more than 1,000 jobs were closed in Hunsfelle when a constellation was closed, a program to return astronauts to the moon, in 2010.
“They remember a constellation and the shuttle program that is close to its end,” said Steve Cash, who managed the NASA payment program and made other jobs in Marshall before his retirement in 2016. “Fear of the unknown is the worst thing.”
The center is now leading the development of the Rockting giant space launch system in NASA, which is part of its last effort to return astronauts to the moon. But Elon Musk, the founder of SPACEX, who supervises his missile development-is to lead Mr. Trump’s federal initiative to reduce costs as a private advisor- Space launch system project.
Among other things, some in Hinsville hope to make Mr. Trump to make the country’s space home.
In the last days of Mr. Trump’s first state, the Air Force announced that it would permanently transfer the matter, which coordinates defense activities in space, to Hunsfel. (Mr. Trump later Tell a radio program This happened because he said alone, “Let’s go to Alabama”)
But during the Biden administration, the Pentagon announced that it would keep the headquarters at its temporary location in Colorado Springs.
With Mr. Trump’s return to his post, the Congress delegation in Alabama has already started a campaign to get space driving. Days before the opening, Tuberville and Katie Britt, members of the Republican Senate in the state, presented the state, resolution Celebrating the announcement of the year 2021 of Hinsville as a location headquarters.
Ms. Brett said in a statement that Huntville is still “the best possible location to fulfill the mission and enhance our national security in the future.”
It is among the number of Republicans who raised concerns about the impact of the plan that would reduce $ 4 billion in federal funding to discuss the country’s universities, cancer and hospital centers. These discounts, which a federal judge put this week, can affect the research programs at the University of Alabama in Hinsville and other places in the state.
Such cuts can flow into other aspects of Huntville’s economy.
Tirins Harris, a real estate agent in Huntfille, said that in the past two weeks, many of his agents who work for the government have declined from plans to buy a house because they are concerned about their job security.
“These extremist fluctuations in federal jobs, they really affect people’s confidence in buying people,” said Mr. Harris. It affects the type of investor that comes to this city. How much are they ready to invest? “
Kenneth Chang Lee Roop contributed to the reports.