{"id":1973001,"date":"2023-07-14T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-criticizes-sen-tuberville-for-military-nominations-delay-gop-senator-hits-back-at-president-for-refusing-to-talk\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:14:06","slug":"biden-criticizes-sen-tuberville-for-military-nominations-delay-gop-senator-hits-back-at-president-for-refusing-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-criticizes-sen-tuberville-for-military-nominations-delay-gop-senator-hits-back-at-president-for-refusing-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden slams Tuberville over military nominations delay\u2014GOP senator retaliates over President&#8217;s refusal to communicate."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fbiden-criticizes-sen-tuberville-for-military-nominations-delay-gop-senator-hits-back-at-president-for-refusing-to-talk%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=1973001&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0714\/bfb1033e-f59f-4e11-aa7d-19144c0b79c7\/audio.mp3?length=5078349&#038;duration=423\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>President Biden and Senator Tuberville Clash Over Military Nominations<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden and Senator Tommy Tuberville engaged in a heated exchange regarding the handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-say-tuberville-risking-national-security-with-his-abortion-protest\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats say Tuberville risking national security with his abortion protest\">military promotions<\/a> and nominations. While Biden ridiculed Tuberville for slowing down the process, the Alabama senator argued that the president has made no effort to negotiate their differences.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Tuberville made headlines when he announced his decision to block the Senate from approving large batches of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-critical-race-theory-has-most-corrosive-influence-on-military\/\" title=\"Cotton: Critical Race Theory Has \u2018Most Corrosive\u2019 Influence on Military\">military nominations<\/a>. This move came after the Biden administration implemented a policy to fund travel and leave for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-marine-corps-lacks-senate-confirmed-leader-as-senator-stalls-nominations-over-pentagon-abortion-policy\/\" title=\"US Marine Corps lacks Senate-approved leader due to senator's delay on Pentagon abortion policy.\">military service members seeking abortions<\/a> in states where it is legally restricted. Tuberville believes this policy conflicts with existing U.S. laws regarding federal funding for abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville&#8217;s block has resulted in a slower approval process for military nominees, as they now have to go through regular order procedures instead of being approved through unanimous consent. The senator has vowed to maintain this stance until the Department of Defense withdraws the abortion policy or Congress changes the laws regarding federal funds and abortions.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, Biden criticized Tuberville for jeopardizing U.S. security with his protest tactics against the DOD abortion policy. The president expressed his frustration, stating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-criticizes-sen-tuberville-for-military-nominations-delay-gop-senator-hits-back-at-president-for-refusing-to-talk\/\" title=\"Biden slams Tuberville over military nominations delay\u2014GOP senator retaliates over President's refusal to communicate.\">injecting domestic social debates<\/a> into fundamental foreign policy decisions is irresponsible.<\/p>\n<h3>President &#8216;Doesn&#8217;t Even Want to Talk&#8217;: Tuberville<\/h3>\n<p>When asked if he would be willing to negotiate with Tuberville to resolve the impasse, Biden responded, &#8220;I&#8217;d be willing to talk to him if I thought there&#8217;s any possibility he was changing this ridiculous position he has.&#8221; Tuberville, in an interview with Breitbart, saw Biden&#8217;s comments as evidence that the president is not negotiating in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville has been opposing the DOD&#8217;s abortion policy since last year and has been trying to convince the department to retract the policy or make changes through Congress. He believes that the White House and the Pentagon are overstepping their boundaries by trying to legislate their own laws.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville also criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s negotiating skills, suggesting that they could have resolved the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine if they were more effective in negotiations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden mocked Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for impeding military promotions and nominations. However, Tuberville argued that Biden made no attempt to negotiate their disagreements. Last December, Tuberville declared his intention to halt Senate approval of extensive military nominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1973002,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1973001","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}