Mitch McConnell slams Tommy Tuberville for military promotion standoff
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday slammed a GOP senate colleague who has single-handedly blocked military promotions.
McConnell said he agrees with the politics behind Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on the promotions of some 250 senior officers, but assailed the Alabama Republican's tactics.
Tuberville is standing in the way of the promotions over the Department of Defense’s policy that includes paid leave and an expense allowance for service members who travel to have abortions.
“I think holding the military personnel who have nothing to do with policy, in order to try to dictate a policy change that I personally support, is not the best way to go about it,” McConnell said, according to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
McConnell’s comment follows a statement from President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticizing Tuberville over the military promotion holds.
“It’s bizarre. I don’t remember it happening before and I’ve been around,” Biden told reporters Tuesday, in an apparent reference to his age.
Tuberville fired back at the president on Tuesday, saying in a tweet that, “What is actually bizarre is Joe Biden's obsession with making taxpayers pay for abortion without Congress ever taking a vote.
“It’s bizarre and it’s wrong.”