Senate Republicans willfully betraying their voters on critically important policy issues is nothing new. Within the past few years, the upper chamber’s GOP members have helped Democrats increase federal spending, declare war on the institution of marriage, and crack down on Americans’ Second Amendment rights, to name a few.
So, it should come as no surprise to find out that several Senate Republicans are contemplating whether to side with their Democrat colleagues to kneecap Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s protest of the Pentagon’s unlawful abortion policy.
After the Defense Department implemented guidance earlier this year that uses U.S. taxpayer dollars to pay for service members’ travel expenses to get abortions, Tuberville 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 GOP senator’s protest forces the body to vote on each nomination one at a time. Tuberville has since come under attack from Senate Democrats, who — despite possessing the power to bring these nominations to the floor for individual confirmation — have baselessly claimed the Alabama senator’s holds harm “military readiness” and “national security.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats have gone to great lengths to stymie efforts by House Republicans to force the Pentagon to reverse its unlawful abortion policy. The House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024, for example, contained a provision to do just that. During a Thursday radio
