The same figures who used phony “military readiness” claims to attack Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for protesting the Pentagon’s unlawful abortion policy are MIA on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to inform leading administration officials of his hospitalization.
Last year, Tuberville began using his position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to slow-walk votes on President Biden’s military nominees in protest of the Pentagon’s use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to pay for service members’ abortion-related travel expenses. Rather than allow the committee to confirm a large number of military nominations “en masse,” the GOP senator’s protest forced the body to vote on each nomination one at a time.
Throughout his fight for the unborn, Tuberville faced vicious and dishonest attacks from Democrats and Biden military officials such as Austin, who regularly and baselessly claimed the Alabama senator’s protest harmed “military readiness” and “national security.” If that wasn’t bad enough, several GOP senators, led by Alaska’s Dan Sullivan, joined Democrats in piling on Tuberville and regurgitating unsubstantiated “military readiness” claims.
Tuberville was ultimately forced to abandon his holds last month after Sullivan and other Republicans threatened to side with Democrats to change Senate rules to skirt his protest.
Yet for all their supposed concern about “military readiness” and “national security,” many of the politicos and officials who attacked Tuberville’s defense of life have remained mum on Austin’s failure to notify the president and leading administration officials about his hospitalization. The Pentagon revealed on Friday that Austin — whose military
