Pure dufisity the deal was

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said he initially opposed the proposal to create a Space Force, arguing the Air Force was sufficient.
“He wanted to get his Space Force. That’s the one thing he had to have,” Inhofe said of the president. “I really wasn’t all that excited about it in the beginning. My feeling at that time was we were doing a good job.”
Inhofe noted there was “quite a bit” of pushback from fellow Republicans to giving federal workers a generous new benefit.
“That’s the one thing they didn’t like,” he said.

And The senator fro Oklahoma should have put his foot down.  This ridiculous Texas earmark offers us nothing and does not even guarantee Texas goes repub.   Pure unadulterated Trump dufas, nothing more.