The Biden administration has dismissed the idea of calling on Senate Democrats to individually pass the president's military nominations amid Sen. Tuberville's hold on them.
The hold is preventing hundreds of nominations and promotions from passing by"unanimous consent," a process that lets senators save time by moving them forward as a group rather than voting on each one individually. But the slower case-by-case path would allow important nominations to proceed, potentially mitigating some of the alleged harm.reverses the new change to its abortion funding policy.
"I told [Defense] Secretary Austin if you change this, I'm going to put a hold on your admirals and generals, and I'm not going to change back until you move the policy back. I don't think they believed me," Tuberville told Fox."If they want to do it, they can bring them to the floor one at a time and we can vote on them. And I would probably vote on most of them and would look forward to doing that. But they have not wanted to work with me at all.
"All they've tried to do is bash me and call me names and do all those things. That's what the Democrats do. That's what this party has done since they've been in power going on three years. They've not been told ‘no’ in three years until this point," he said."I'm not going to change my mind. They have not tried to meet me in the middle. They have not tried to compromise.
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