Tuberville, who’s singlehandedly blocked hundreds of military promotions in protest over the Pentagon’s abortion policies, said he’s not going to change his mind and doesn’t care that people aren’t being promoted.
After the US Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent in overturning its decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion access case in 2022, the Pentagon announced its plan to reimburse service members who need to travel out-of-state to receive abortion services.
Tuberville, a Republican senator out of Alabama, took exception to the decision and said he’d use his power to stymie any military nominations and promotions he could. Since February, he’s blocked more than 300 promotions.
Because no republicans currently in office have any reason to attack him since they aren’t running against him.
And because I’m sure this both saves the government a couple nickels and them a couple approvals.
This absolutely does not save the government/taxpayers any money, quite the opposite. When they lose qualified staff to attrition over bullshit like this, it’s very expensive to replace them. And given enough time, it will start to impact military readiness across the board, if it hasn’t already.
Oh of course, it’s similar to continuously repaving roads every twenty years using materials that cost half as much as those that last a century. You “save money” on the budgets that you sign. Consequences be damned.