{"id":114600,"date":"2023-06-16T02:11:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=114600"},"modified":"2023-06-16T02:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:11:48","slug":"tuberville-rejects-gop-attempts-to-end-military-promotions-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=114600","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tuberville rejects GOP attempts to end military promotions blockade&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/14\/tommy-tuberville-military-promotions-00101935\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;Sen.\u00a0Tommy Tuberville\u00a0is rejecting off-ramps and advice from more senior Republicans to end his hold on military promotions, even as Pentagon officials step up their warnings that the maneuver is compromising America\u2019s security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alabama lawmaker\u2019s colleagues have approached him in recent weeks to broker a compromise that would allow roughly 250 senior officer promotions to clear the Senate. The hold threatens to ensnare President Joe Biden\u2019s pick for Joint Chiefs chair, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, along with others preparing to rotate in as senior military leaders prepare to retire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuberville first imposed the blocks in protest of the Defense Department\u2019s new policy to pay travel costs for service members seeking abortion or other reproductive care. He claims that decision from late last year cuts against the Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and vows to maintain the holds until Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin changes course or the senator gets a straightforward vote on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen.\u00a0John Cornyn\u00a0(R-Texas), first elected to the Senate in 2002 and formerly Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u2019s No. 2, said he has spoken with Tuberville to \u201cwork with him to help him achieve his goal\u201d when the Senate considers the annual defense policy bill. Cornyn indicated that he agreed with Tuberville\u2019s stance on the Pentagon policy and was not pressuring him, insisting it was Tuberville\u2019s choice on whether to drop his hold.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;Sen.\u00a0Tommy Tuberville\u00a0is rejecting off-ramps and advice from more senior Republicans to end his hold on military promotions, even as Pentagon officials step up their warnings that the maneuver is compromising America\u2019s security. The Alabama lawmaker\u2019s colleagues have approached him in recent weeks to broker a compromise that would allow roughly 250 senior officer promotions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114601,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114600\/revisions\/114601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}