{"id":1024782,"date":"2023-07-20T17:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1024782"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:46:18","slug":"icymi-desantis-backs-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations-and-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-desantis-backs-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations-and-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: DeSantis Backs Tuberville\u2019s Blockade on Military Nominations and Promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis backed Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u2019s months-long blockade on military nominations on Thursday, saying that the Pentagon\u2019s abortion policy would \u201cgo out the window\u201d if he wins the presidency\u2026 Military leaders and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have blasted Tuberville, saying that the hold harms national security and military readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/tuberville-military-desantis-abortion-00107289\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a><strong>: DeSantis backs Tuberville on military holds, denounces Pentagon abortion policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Matt Berg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backed Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u2019s months-long blockade on military nominations on Thursday, saying that the Pentagon\u2019s abortion policy would \u201cgo out the window\u201d if he wins the presidency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tuberville has blocked consideration of more than 200 stalled military promotions, demanding that the Pentagon overturn its policy of providing paid leave to service members seeking an abortion. Military leaders and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have blasted Tuberville, saying that the hold harms national security and military readiness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cOur group of Republicans in the Congress should just take a stand on this. The DOD should stand down,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have all these other problems in our military. We need more ammunition, we need more recruiting, we need all these other things and yet they\u2019re focusing on abortion tourism.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Tuesday, DeSantis voiced his intentions to \u201crip the woke\u201d out of the military if he becomes president, with promises to cut diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and banning race and gender quotas as well as drag shows on bases. The Biden administration criticized his campaign for the remarks shortly after.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIf Ron DeSantis actually cared about the military, he would call on Sen. Tuberville to stop the unprecedented damage he\u2019s doing to the armed forces and military families every day by blockading of hundreds of military nominations and promotions,\u201d Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz told ABC News.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis backed Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u2019s months-long blockade on military nominations on Thursday, saying that the Pentagon\u2019s abortion policy would \u201cgo out the window\u201d if he wins the presidency\u2026 Military leaders and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have blasted Tuberville, saying that the hold harms national security and military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: DeSantis Backs Tuberville\u2019s Blockade on Military Nominations and Promotions - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-desantis-backs-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations-and-promotions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-20T17:46:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-20T17:46:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-desantis-backs-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations-and-promotions\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-desantis-backs-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations-and-promotions\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: DeSantis Backs Tuberville\u2019s Blockade on Military Nominations and Promotions - 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