President Donald Trump will soon know the fate of his proposed Space Force.

Lawmakers on Friday finished negotiating the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which is the primary mechanism for funding U.S. military projects. The final conference report, which hasn't been released to the public, could get a House vote as soon as next week.

Congress has passed bipartisan versions of the bill for the past 58 years. This year, however, politics were injected into the debate as measures related to border wall funding, "forever" chemicals, transgender people openly serving in the military and Space Force caused partisan fights that slowed the appropriations process.

Space Force would be a sixth branch of the military – its first new branch in over 70 years. It would coordinate the nation's warfighting capabilities in space. Although it would be its own branch, it would exist under the Air Force, similar to how the Marines exist under the Navy.

Both the House and Senate versions of the bill included the creation of a space military branch, though they differed on names and organization.

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee James Inhofe, R-Okla, previously accused Democrats of using Space Force as "leverage" in the negotiation process.

"Space Force is the thing that they think the president wants the most, therefore, they can say, use that as leverage," he told The Hill . "But it hasn't worked."

During a hearing Tuesday, Inhofe said that "issues outside this committee's purview" were holding up the bill.

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"Only leadership can clear up this logjam," he said.

As the funding deadline loomed, Inhofe said that Congress may need to rely on his "skinny" version of the defense bill, which includes the basic funding necessities. It does not include language on a space-focused military branch.

Not everyone was willing to get behind the slimmed-down bill.

Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith, D-Wash., said last month that the skinny bill is a nonstarter because of what it leaves out.

Todd Harrison, the director of aerospace security project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also did not want a skinny bill.

"I don't think the skinny bill is necessary at all, but if they went that route, they are effectively giving up on passing a regular defense authorization bill this year," Harrison says.

Harrison says it shows progress that both versions of the bill include some kind of Space Force, adding that politicizing space issues could be problematic.

"It would be unfortunate if national security space issues become a partisan fight because space has for decades been a bipartisan issue," Harrison says.

Smith said last month that many questions about Space Force need to be solved.

"There are still a lot of people in the House and in the Senate who are worried about it and the specifics of how it gets implemented," Smith said. "How much money does it cost? How much more bureaucracy does it put in place? These are all things that need to be negotiated. There is a bipartisan concern on the proposal and bicameral concern on the specifics of that proposal."

And the public may not be as invested in a Space Force as Trump is.

A poll conducted in May 2019 found that Americans ranked the establishment of a U.S. military presence in space as the least important objective for a space program.

If Space Force is included in the final version of the bill and Trump agrees to sign it, it could be operational by 2023, according to officials.