FILE – Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks throughout a dialogue about the terrorist assault at Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate throughout a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Washington. McCaul stated on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Sept. 10, that Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is paralyzing the Department of Defense, as Tuberville wages an unheard of try to alternate Pentagon abortion coverage by retaining up loads of army nominations and promotions. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is slamming a fellow Republican in the Senate for waging an unprecedented attempt to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, advised CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is “paralyzing the Department of Defense.”
“The concept that one guy in the Senate can grasp this up for months, I perceive perhaps promotions, however nominations,” McCaul said. He added, “I think that is a national security problem and a national security issue. And I really wish he would reconsider this.”
Tuberville’s transfer has pressured much less skilled leaders into best jobs and raised issues at the Pentagon about army readiness. Defense officers say Tuberville is jeopardizing American nationwide safety. Senators in each events, together with Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, even have criticized Tuberville.
Tuberville has refused to budge, saying will not drop the holds unless majority Democrats allow a vote on the policy. Democrats argue that a vote o every nominee could tie up the Senate floor for months, and they do not want to give in to Tuberville’s demands and encourage similar blockades of nominees in the future.
McCaul stated on CNN that the House could be tackling the factor of abortion in the army as a part of a sweeping protection spending invoice making its means via Congress. In the interim, he stated, “To hold up the top brass from being promoted and lower brass, I think is paralyzing our Department of Defense.”