{"id":1948396,"date":"2023-06-15T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-says-hell-continue-blocking-military-nominees-amid-abortion-funding-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:59:46","slug":"tuberville-says-hell-continue-blocking-military-nominees-amid-abortion-funding-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-says-hell-continue-blocking-military-nominees-amid-abortion-funding-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberville vows to persist in blocking military nominees over abortion funding dispute."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftuberville-says-hell-continue-blocking-military-nominees-amid-abortion-funding-fight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Tuberville Doubles Down on Blocking Pentagon Confirmations<\/h2>\n<p>After facing criticism for his stance on the United States military abortion policy, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) remains steadfast in his position. Despite requests to advance a Naval Academy official&#8217;s nomination, Tuberville maintains that his hold does not pose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-considering-not-giving-trump-intelligence-briefings\/\" title=\"Biden Considering Not Giving Trump Intelligence Briefings\">national security risk<\/a> and vows to continue fighting against the Defense Department&#8217;s abortion funding.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the Supreme Court Ruling<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;These military positions are currently being fulfilled by acting officials. These jobs are not vacant, and our readiness is not affected,&#8221; Tuberville confidently stated on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon policy in question, enacted last year, provides paid leave and reimbursement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-says-hell-continue-blocking-military-nominees-amid-abortion-funding-fight\/\" title=\"Tuberville vows to persist in blocking military nominees over abortion funding dispute.\">service members seeking abortion services<\/a>. Tuberville has been protesting against this policy since March, primarily due to the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-may-declare-public-health-emergency-in-attempt-to-secure-abortion-ahead-of-roe-decision\/\" title=\"Biden May Declare \"Public Health Emergency\" in Attempt to Secure Abortion Ahead of Roe Decision\">federal taxpayer funds<\/a> for abortions.<\/p>\n<p>In response to criticisms from Sen. Cardin, Tuberville dismisses the complaints from Democrats as &#8220;disinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to clarify that I am not blocking anyone from getting confirmed. I am not blocking a single vote. I am simply blocking unanimous consent,&#8221; Tuberville clarified.<\/p>\n<p>As long as Tuberville maintains his stance, the confirmation process for new Pentagon officials in the Senate will remain at a stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville is reportedly working with senior Republicans to find a compromise, as reported by the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) faced backlash for blocking 250 Pentagon officials&#8217; confirmations due to a US military abortion policy. Despite criticism, Tuberville remains firm. When Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) sought to advance a Naval Academy official&#8217;s nomination, Tuberville dismissed concerns of national security risks and pledged to persist in his fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1948397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4310,5549,5108,6513,4505,8163,14424,6305,5099],"class_list":["post-1948396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-abortion","tag-blocking","tag-dispute","tag-funding","tag-military","tag-nominees","tag-persist","tag-tuberville","tag-vows"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}