“We don’t have anything to negotiate with here. [Sen. Tuberville] really has the power.'
The standoff between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who has held up hundreds of senior military promotions for months in protest of the Pentagon’s abortion access policies, showed no signs of abating Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Tuberville’s office countered that the onus is on Austin to end a confirmation blockade of senior generals and admirals that has dragged into a sixth month. Tuberville has refused to consent to a unanimous voice vote in the Senate to confirm military nominees unless Austin rescinds the reproductive health policy.
Singh on Tuesday noted the effects of the blockade are now being felt “right in Sen. Tuberville’s backyard.” A rear admiral at Redstone Arsenal, a center for Army missile programs located in Tuberville’s home state of Alabama, is temporarily filling in as acting director of the Missile Defense Agency — a job that is supposed to be handled by a three-star general.
“If you are a service member stationed in a state that has rolled back or restricted health care access, you are often stationed there because you were assigned there. It is not that you chose to go there,” Singh said. “So, a service member in Alabama deserves to have the same access to health care as a service member in California, as a service member stationed in Korea.”
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