Tuberille’s Partial Release On Military Promotions Doesn’t Mean Any Woke Pentagon Policies Have Been Resolved
After weeks of pressure and threats from his GOP colleagues to side with Senate Democrats, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced Tuesday that he’s largely abandoning his months-long blockade of military promotions in protest of the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy.
The blackmailing of Tuberville comes at the same time a House and Senate Conference Committee is expected to meet to reconcile differences over each chamber’s versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2024. The conference could help to resolve the months-long impasse initiated by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin when he unilaterally announced generous time-off and travel expense subsidies for women seeking “non-covered” abortions across state lines. Unfortunately, this is just one of the military’s far-left, woke policies that Congress should review.
The Defense Department recently requested $140 million, up from $68 million and $86.5 million in 2022 and 2023, to expand the DOD’s Diversity Industrial Complex. This is an unaccountable network of single-minded advisory committees, task forces, working groups, and near-useless, highly paid consultants and diversity-crats who impose woke policy agendas on everything from promotions to reality-denying “gender-neutral” pronouns. Woke policies take leftism to extremes, even if they hurt the institution.
Sections in the pending defense bill would dismantle and defund all DEI offices. These Pentagon power bases consciously promote discrimination to achieve percentage-based demographic quotas, euphemistically called “goals.” The legislation also would drastically reduce the pay grade of DEI “experts,” while eliminating
