No. of Recommendations: 15
Dope1:
The Senate majority leader could bring the nominations to the floor one by one for consideration by regular procedure, but that would require two to three days for each.
Presto. Service chiefs installed.Umm, Tuberville is blocking over 300 promotions.
Tuberville is holding up replacements that include that of the Marine Commandant, a post that is now unfilled for the first time since the Civil War. Three more members of the Joint Chiefs, including its chairman, Army General Mark Milley, reach the end of their terms in August and September. That would leave half the Joint Chiefs positions without permanent Senate-confirmed nominees.
Without a unanimous consent agreement,
the Senate majority leader would be forced to bring nominations to the floor one by one for consideration by regular procedure, but that would require two to three days for each.So, let's see... since Tuberville is blocking over 300 promotions, that's
600 to 900 days just on military promotions and nothing else.
IOW, impossible.
Dope1:
Tuberville is making a point, and it's a correct one...From military.com:
There have been 91 abortions performed in U.S. military hospitals since 2016, at least two-thirds of which were for active-duty service women whose lives were threatened by their pregnancy or who were victims of a crime.Of the 243 gender reassignment surgeries performed on military personnel since 2016, 50 took place between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017, and 193 occurred from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2019 -- the two years after President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would bar transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.
No one is forcing the military to do anything, or diverting funds to pay for gender reassignment surgery.
The military's health insurance provider, TRICARE, already covers hormone therapy and psychological counselling for gender dysphoria. They don't generally cover surgery, however 'active duty service members may request a waiver if their provider deems surgery medically necessary'.
To put it into context, the Pentagon spends about $50 billion per year on health care. According to data obtained by USA Today in 2019, the Pentagon spent almost $8 million to treat 1,525 transgender troops between 2016 and 2019.
In short, .00016%.
Or a rounding error.
So no, Tuberville is not making a point, he's grandstanding.
He's trying to get his face on camera.
He's trying to get attention as a freshman senator.
He's a transphobic misogynist.
And he's harming military readiness.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/30/us-...https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/18/her... 