{"id":2024110,"date":"2023-09-06T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-stands-firm-against-new-pentagon-media-pressure-campaign-over-holds-on-military-nominations\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T02:35:57","slug":"tuberville-stands-firm-against-new-pentagon-media-pressure-campaign-over-holds-on-military-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-stands-firm-against-new-pentagon-media-pressure-campaign-over-holds-on-military-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberville resists Pentagon&#8217;s media pressure on military nominations."},"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\">16<\/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-stands-firm-against-new-pentagon-media-pressure-campaign-over-holds-on-military-nominations%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=2024110&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. Tommy Tuberville Stands Firm on Military Nominations Despite Pentagon Pressure<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) remains unwavering in his stance to hold up military nominations\u2063 in the Senate over its abortion policy,\u2064 despite a new Pentagon media pressure campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Department \u2064of Defense sent the civilian leaders of the Navy, Army, and Air Force to protest Tuberville&#8217;s holds in a string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/well-known-colorado-animal-rights-lawyer-arrested-after-allegedly-hiring-hitman-to-murder-husbands-girlfriend\/\" title=\"Well-Known Colorado Animal Rights Lawyer Arrested After Allegedly Hiring Hitman To Murder Husband\u2019s Girlfriend\">media appearances<\/a>,\u2063 and it\u200b published a news story on the DOD website regarding the effects of the holds. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro even suggested Tuberville was aiding communists in an interview on \u2063CNN.<\/p>\n<h3>Democrat Launches Campaign \u200cin Virginia for Vulnerable Republican&#8217;s House Seat<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;For someone who was born in a communist country, I would have never imagined that \u2063one\u2064 of our own senators would actually be \u2062aiding and abetting communist\u200d and other autocratic regimes around the world,&#8221; Del Toro said, appearing alongside\u200b Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Army \u2062Secretary Christine Wormuth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Appearing on Fox News the following day, Tuberville brushed off the complaints \u200bfrom the\u2064 Pentagon and laughed off Del Toro&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up in a military family. My\u2062 dad was career military \u2014 died \u200bon active duty,&#8221; he told host Laura Ingraham. &#8220;There\u2019s no\u200d bigger fan of the military than me up here. \u200cI\u2019m on \u200cthe \u2062Armed Services Committee.\u2062 I\u2063 didn\u2019t think I would come up here and ever be associated with terrorism and communism\u2062 as a United States senator. That\u2019s wrong. This is coming from the talking heads of \u200dthe White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tuberville said the Biden administration could stop his hold on promotions any time and that all it \u2062had to\u2062 do was call a vote on the new Pentagon abortion policy, which would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-cities-give-paid-leave-to-employees-who-get-abortions\/\" title=\"Progressive Cities Give Paid Leave to Employees Who Get Abortions\">give paid leave<\/a> to any woman who wanted to travel to get an abortion. If\u2063 one promotion \u2064is urgent, the Pentagon can put forward that nomination individually and get it passed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I told \u200bSecretary Austin \u200bthis almost a year ago,&#8221; Tuberville\u200b continued. &#8220;&#8216;If you do this, I\u2019m going to block your generals and admirals from\u200b promotion.&#8217; \u200dThey didn\u2019t believe me. They put all this\u2063 into effect. And, as \u200cyou\u2063 said, I can hold just\u2062 so many of them. If they bring them one at\u2063 a time, they could \u200bget \u2064them all they want. The problem \u200bis &#8230; they\u200b don\u2019t want bad votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Alabama Republican pointed\u2062 to\u2062 the political aspect, blaming\u200c the\u200d Pentagon&#8217;s refusal to\u2064 bring\u200b forth the\u200b policy or individual promotions on fears\u200c from Democrats that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-stands-firm-against-new-pentagon-media-pressure-campaign-over-holds-on-military-nominations\/\" title=\"Tuberville resists Pentagon's media pressure on military nominations.\">force vulnerable senators<\/a> to take unpopular positions with their base.<\/p>\n<p>He\u200c also dismissed the suggested urgency of the situation, pointing\u200b to what\u2063 could be \u2063perceived as positive effects\u200d of \u200bthe holds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is a huge\u2063 percentage \u200bof the people that they want to elevate\u200c to \u200banother star, possibly to even \u200da four-star,&#8221; Tuberville said, referring to the generals&#8217; rank. &#8220;By the way,\u200d we already got\u200c 44. That\u2019s way too many\u200c as it is. There is a lot of them, and all they\u2062 want to do is talk about DEI. Everything is about equity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They \u200dare saying\u200d that generals and admirals are the most \u2064important. The most important people we have in the military are the sergeants, the corporals, the privates, the second lieutenants, the first lieutenants,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> for more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The people who actually \u200ddo the work, not the people riding around in black limousines in Washington, D.C., and have a nice office at the\u2063 Pentagon. The Pentagon is way too big as it is. We need\u2062 to send more \u2064money back down to the people who actually\u200b do\u200c the\u2063 work. We have way too many leaders at the top. It is \u200bgetting way out of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tuberville recommended the DOD \u2064focus on getting &#8220;wokeness&#8221; out of the military and \u2063building up forces to counter China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) remains resolute in his decision to delay military nominations in the Senate due to its abortion policy, despite a recent media campaign by the Pentagon. The Department of Defense enlisted the civilian heads of the Navy, Army, and Air Force to publicly oppose Tuberville&#8217;s holds through various media appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024111,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2024110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2024110","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=2024110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}