Joe Biden slams Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville for Pentagon maintain up: 'It is weird'

President Joe Biden took a swipe at Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and his effort to halt Division of Protection nominations.

Biden commented on the Alabama senator's feud with the Pentagon throughout a fundraiser in Los Gatos, California, in line with the Hill. On the occasion, the president did not point out Tuberville by title, referring to him as a “former soccer coach from Alabama.”

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“It’s weird. I don’t bear in mind it taking place earlier than,” Biden stated of Tuberville's blocking of nominations and promotions. “I do know I don’t seem like I’ve been round, however I’ve been round a very long time.”

On Feb. 16, the DOD instituted its new coverage of paying for journey and break day for servicewomen who search abortions. The coverage was first introduced in an Oct. 20 memo. Tuberville argued that apart from ethical objections, the Pentagon's transfer was an unlawful enlargement of the division's authority. In response, he has moved to dam all DOD officer nominees and promotions.

Whereas unable to utterly block the acceptance of the nominations and promotions, Tuberville's transfer has made the method way more time-consuming, clogging up a whole bunch of nominations. The Pentagon has complained that the transfer harms army readiness, a cost Tuberville rejects.

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“If my colleague cared about army readiness, possibly we’d go after extra of the ridiculous insurance policies which have led to our lowest, our lowest recruitment numbers in many years. However my maintain does ship a message that the secretary shouldn't be — and I repeat, not — above the regulation. And he can not ignore lawmakers who're demanding his group abide by regulation," Tuberville stated in March when he started his protest.

"I object and can proceed to object to any nominees so long as this unlawful new abortion coverage is in place. I’m holding the army accountable. Others are holding our nationwide safety hostage by forcing their agenda the place it doesn’t belong. Individuals desire a army centered on nationwide protection, and that’s what I’m preventing for. For these causes, I object.”

The Alabama senator has since been joined in help by a slew of Republican senators, together with Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Deb Fischer (R-NE), John Thune (R-SD), Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Steve Daines (R-MT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Joni Ernst (R-IA). He has additionally been joined in help by Home Republicans, together with Reps. Barry Moore (R-AL), Michael Cloud (R-TX), Dan Bishop (R-NC), Mike Johnson (R-LA), and Chip Roy (R-TX).

The Washington Examiner reached out to Tuberville's workplace for remark.