The deadlock reached a dramatic and very public phase when a cadre of GOP senators confronted Tuberville on the Senate floor Wednesday night, blaming the Alabama lawmaker’s blanket hold for weakening the military at a precarious moment for the world. The four-hour-plus event, which forced Tuberville to object to votes on 61 nominees, marked a pivotal moment for Republicans as their private frustrations with the freshman lawmaker spilled over onto live TV for all to see. “I think what it says about where things are is Tommy’s losing support,” Sen....

Pro-life organizations are turning up the heat on Republican senators, warning them against joining forces with Democrats to override Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion policy. Advocacy groups tell The Washington Times they will brand every GOP senator as a supporter of taxpayer-funded abortions if they vote to circumvent the Alabama Republican’s blockade of nearly 400 promotions for military officers.

Tommy Tuberville, a lifelong civilian, has taken up arms against the US military. He has single-handedly blocked promotion for scores of officers, leaving already overstretched senior commanders dangerously overloaded. Because he disagrees with the Pentagon’s policy of enabling pregnant servicewomen to access a full range of medical care, including abortions. If Tuberville were a good politician, he would have ridden that horse a few miles. Then stabled it — his point made. But Tommy is not a sharp knife. Despite a proxy war in Ukraine and a red-hot clash in...

The senator blocking says he worked just as hard as a Marine commandant who suffered a heart attack while doing two jobs. "I did that for years, because you got to get the job done," Sen. Tommy Tuberville Thursday. "Come on, give me a break, this guy’s gonna work 18 to 20 hours a day no matter what." Tuberville (R-AL) repeatedly denied responsibility for the hospitalization of Commandant Gen. Eric Smith, who had been filling the top two positions in the Marine Corps since July. , Tuberville has put a...

Things got heated between Republicans on the Senate floor Wednesday night. During a four-hour stretch, several GOP senators—led by Joni Ernst of Iowa and Dan Sullivan of Alaska—slung daggers at Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama for taking a hatchet to U.S. military readiness. Tuberville has single-handedly staged a months-long blockade of more than 370 promotions because he objects to the Pentagon policy of making abortion care accessible to troops who need it.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) blockade of hundreds of military promotions that require congressional approval has generated intense backlash from Senate Republicans and national security experts. Despite the GOP’s vocal dissatisfaction and warnings of long-lasting consequences for military readiness, many right-wing media figures have thrown their full support behind Tuberville’s anti-woke and anti-abortion crusade.

A group of Republican senators took to the Senate floor late Wednesday to attempt to circumvent a dispute in which Sen. Tommy Tuberville has single-handedly held up more than 300 military promotions over a Pentagon abortion travel policy. The stunning scene comes nine months into the blockade and as Democrats – and more recently fellow Republicans – have grown anxious to move the military promotions forward. While any single senator has the right to impose a hold on a nomination – and it has been invoked for political purposes in...

A spokesperson for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) asked anti-abortion groups to spread the message that GOP senators could be primaried if they support an effort to defeat his military holds regarding a Pentagon abortion policy, Politico reported Thursday. The message pointed out that Tuberville is worried that at least nine Republicans might join Democrats in their effort to bypass his holds. “In my opinion, it is imperative for all of the groups to make clear, in some words, that any Republican who votes for this will be primaried,” Tuberville’s communications...

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham lashed out at fellow Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Wednesday for blocking hundreds of military nominations from moving forward in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy. Tuberville, an Alabama Republican who joined Congress in 2021, has been blocking the approval of more than 300 military nominations over a Pentagon policy that reimburses the out-of-state travel costs for service members seeking abortions.