Heritage Action for America is gearing up to oppose a congressionally negotiated defense spending measure should it fail to include a provision outlawing the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy.
“Our adversaries—especially China—have watched as this administration put politics over military strength and lethality,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker said in a statement. “President Biden focused on turning the Pentagon into an abortion travel agency while struggling to recruit servicemembers and showing weakness around the world. Enough is enough.”
Earlier this year, the Defense Department launched a new policy that uses U.S. taxpayer dollars to pay for service members’ travel expenses to get abortions, constituting a violation of the Hyde Amendment. In response to this unlawful guidance, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., began using his position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to slow-walk votes on President Biden’s military nominees. Rather than allow the committee to confirm a large number of military nominations “en masse,” the Alabama senator’s protest forces the body to vote on each nomination one at a time.
In addition to facing attacks from Democrats — who have baselessly claimed the protest harms U.S. “military readiness” and “national security” — Tuberville has come under fire from his GOP colleagues. Several of these “Republican” senators, including Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Joni Ernst of Iowa, and others, are reportedly preparing to side with Democrats in advancing a resolution to change Senate rules that would allow the body to skirt Tuberville’s protest and effectively permit the DOD’s unlawful abortion policy to
