Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ripped Tommy Tuberville, Alabama’s senior senator, for holding up hundreds of military promotions over the Pentagon’s end-run around regulations that prohibit the Defense Department from providing abortions except in cases of rape, incest or saving the mother’s life.
wrote in a May 5 letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat. “The United States military relies on the deep experience and strategic expertise of our senior military leaders. The longer that this hold persists, the greater the risk the U.S. military runs in every theater, every domain and every service.”
The dispute is over a February 2023 Pentagon policy that provides for travel allowances and administrative leave for service members seeking an abortion if the procedure is unavailable near their duty assignment. Mr.“This is about a tyrannical executive branch walking all over the United States Senate and doing our jobs,” he said. “This was Secretary Austin’s choice. thought abortion is more important than his highest-level military nominations.
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