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    Trump’s Space Force Will Have to Wait

    The president has called for the creation of a new military branch. So far, Congress is ignoring him.
    by Marina Koren Jul 24, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Evan Vucci / AP

    Updated on July 25 at 9:55 a.m. ET

    In mid-June, President Donald Trump gave one of his generals a new assignment.

    “I’m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces,” the president declared, during a speech at a meeting of the National Space Council at the White House. “We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force—separate but equal. It’s going to be something.”

    He looked around the room for Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “General Dunford, if

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