{"id":2025774,"date":"2023-09-08T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-holdout-causes-biden-military-leaders-to-melt-down-in-the-media\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:29:43","slug":"gop-senators-holdout-causes-biden-military-leaders-to-melt-down-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-holdout-causes-biden-military-leaders-to-melt-down-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator&#8217;s Opposition Sparks Media Frenzy Over Biden&#8217;s Military Leaders"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fgop-senators-holdout-causes-biden-military-leaders-to-melt-down-in-the-media%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=2025774&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>Republican Senator&#8217;s Holdout \u2063Causes Biden Military Leaders to Melt Down in the Media<\/h2>\n<p>As the \u2062Biden administration sought to put pressure\u2062 on Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama to end his hold on military promotions that must be confirmed by the Senate, one top Biden\u200b appointee accused Tuberville of \u2064supporting America\u2019s \u2063enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The senator has taken his stand in response to a Pentagon policy that pays the expenses of service members who go out of state for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jen-psaki-claimed-dems-dont-want-abortions-birth-desantis-campaign-brings-receipts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> if the state they are in has restrictions under\u200b which that service member could not obtain an abortion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/senate-military-nominations-holds-tommy-tuberville-e38d853526de044ac59338d32d7a0e10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville has said the policy\u200b violates the <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/IF\/IF12167#:~:text=The%20Hyde%20Amendment%2C%20according%20to,are%20not%20obligated%20to%20cover.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyde Amendment<\/a>, which has prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding of most abortions since 1977.<\/p>\n<p>His tactic blocks \u200dthe traditional \u2062Senate voice vote on promotions of\u2062 generals \u2064and other officers.<\/p>\n<p>It does not prohibit Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-blocks-cynical-schumer-move-shove-biden-judges-end-top-dem-senator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> of New York \u2063from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-holdout-causes-biden-military-leaders-to-melt-down-in-the-media\/\" title=\"GOP Senator's Opposition Sparks Media Frenzy Over Biden's Military Leaders\">scheduling roll call votes<\/a> on the promotions.<\/p>\n<p>About 300 promotions have been halted, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>To put pressure on Tuberville, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Air Force\u2063 Secretary Frank Kendall\u200d and Army Secretary Christine\u200d Wormuth attacked him in an Op-Ed published \u2063Monday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/09\/04\/army-navy-air-force-secretaries-tuberville-military-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u200b Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The three\u2063 Biden \u200dadministration military leaders also made a joint appearance on\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RBhcxhzGltI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> to decry the senator\u2019s \u200bhold on promotions.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you \u2062support Tuberville\u2019s stance?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Completing this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of \u200ccharge. You may\u2063 opt out at anytime. You \u2064also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Del Toro accused Tuberville \u2062of \u201cplaying Russian roulette with the very lives of our servicemembers\u2062 by denying them the \u200dopportunity to \u2062actually have\u200d the most\u2063 experienced\u200c combat leaders in those positions to lead them in times of peace and in\u200d times of combat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have never imagined that actually one of our\u200b own senators would actually be aiding and abetting communist and other autocratic\u2062 regimes\u2062 around the world,\u201d the Navy secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Kendall said a U.S. military officer was taunted by a Chinese officer \u201cabout the way our democracy was working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warmuth said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philly-food-truck-festival-canceled-over-inclusion-of-jewish-vendor\/\" title=\"Philly Food Truck Festival Canceled Over Inclusion of Jewish Vendor\">social media criticism<\/a> of specific officers \u2062is \u201cunprecedented\u201d\u200b because it was \u201cattacking apolitical general officers and flag \u2062officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Op-Ed, \u2064the\u2064 three \u200bsecretaries said Tuberville is \u201cputting our national security at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville, however, said \u201cI\u2019m not\u200d budging,\u201d\u2063 according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/06\/politics\/tuberville-military-holds-cq-brown\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said the hold will end when the Pentagon rescinds its\u2063 policy, which was instituted in October following the\u200c Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision that\u200c overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I thought I\u200c was really harming our military, I \u200dwouldn\u2019t be\u2063 doing this,\u201d Tuberville said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In comments on Fox News, he fired \u200dback at\u200b Del Toro, saying, \u201cWe are so woke in the military \u2062we are losing recruits right \u2062and left. Secretary Del Toro of the Navy, he needs to get to building ships, he needs to get to \u2064recruiting, and he\u200b needs to get wokeness out of our Navy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got\u2062 people \u200bdoing poems on aircraft carriers over the loudspeaker. It is absolutely insane the direction we are headed in our military. And we\u2019re \u200bheaded downhill,\u2064 not uphill.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tuberville responds to the Navy Secretary by saying the Secretary has to get wokeness out of the Navy because \u200c\u201cwe\u2019ve got people doing poems on aircraft\u200d carriers\u201d\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JiTgCrFb2q\">pic.twitter.com\/JiTgCrFb2q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1699567691307065444?\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tuberville bristled that the secretaries went public before speaking to him, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>They should have \u2062spoken to him \u201cif you\u2019re\u200d gonna run your mouth in the paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not heard from \u2062any of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-mental-health-pandemic-is-already-here\/\" title=\"The Mental Health Pandemic Is Already Here\">college football coach<\/a> said if they were \u200dtruly\u200d worried about readiness, \u201cyou would think they would be calling, \u2018Coach, let\u2019s work this out.\u2019 Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-senators-holdout-causes-biden-military-leaders-melt-media\/\">GOP Senator&#8217;s Holdout Causes Biden Military Leaders to Melt Down in the Media<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration urged Sen. Tommy Tuberville to release his hold on Senate-confirmed military promotions. A top Biden appointee accused Tuberville of aiding America&#8217;s enemies. 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