President Joe Biden’s administration this week plans to ramp up its fight with Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his blockade of senior military officer promotions and bring the battle closer to the senator’s home, NBC reported Sunday.
Other Sunday morning talk shows also discussed Tuberville’s hold on promotions and its relation to the Republican-majority U.S. House of Representatives vote Friday to approve the NDAA.This Week with George Stephanopoulos,
Republicans, however, have said that it’s Democrats who have put politics into the NDAA by allowing taxpayer money to be used for travel expenses for abortion and the other social programs. Sen. Tammy Duckworth , member of the Senate Armed Services & Foreign Relations Committees, also talked on Meet the Press about Tuberville’s hold.
“And Republican leadership had offered him multiple off-ramps to this,” Duckworth said. “And he’s backed himself into a corner, I mean. You know what he’s saying is that Democrats need to pass a national codification of Roe V Wade. We would love to do that. Obviously, that’s not going happen anytime soon with the Senate as closely split as it is,” she said.
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