{"id":147537,"date":"2023-09-21T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147537"},"modified":"2023-09-20T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:39:12","slug":"senate-democrats-blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147537","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats blink"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senator Coach Tuberville (R-AL) has famously been holding up senior DoD appointment confirmations over the DoD’s support of using taxpayer funds for abortions. He’s been clear that he’s not holding up confirmation votes, but he is holding up blanket rubber stamping of confirmations by quick, procedural voice cote. If Democrats want to proceed on confirmations, they need to bring each one to a floor vote. Naturally, they won’t do this, despite their constant protestations that the holds are damaging national security.<\/p>\n

Late Wednesday the Democrats finally just did their jobs and confirmed the outstanding appointments for the vacancies on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY), who absolutely loves to play political games himself, decried Tuberville, saying,<\/p>\n

Due to the extraordinary circumstances of Sen. Tuberville\u2019s reckless decisions, Democrats will take action. It\u2019s not the path a vast majority of senators on either side of the aisle want to go down, but Sen. Tuberville is forcing us to face his obstruction head-on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’m so very sorry you have to do something at work today, Mr. Schumer.<\/p>\n

Military Times<\/a> has the scoop,<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This story was corrected at 5:45pm Eastern to note that Gen. Charles Q. Brown would be the second Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not the first, which was Gen. Colin Powell.\u00a0<\/em>[Emphasis original]<\/p>\n

Senate leaders announced plans Wednesday to fill three vacancies on the Joint Chiefs of Staff \u2014 including the chairman post \u2014 after a surprise breakthrough in the ongoing chamber confirmation fight that has snarled hundreds of military promotions for months.<\/p>\n

Gen. Charles Q. Brown was confirmed as the new Joint Chiefs chairman by a 83-11 vote Wednesday night. Gen. Randy George, the nominee for Army chief of staff, and Gen. Eric Smith, the nominee for commandant of the Marine Corps, will face similar confirmation votes on Thursday as part of an agreement reached with Republican leaders.<\/p>\n

The news came as Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., prepared to force a chamber vote on Marine Corps nominee Smith, whose nomination has been held up since June by Tuberville as part of a blanket hold he has put on senior military promotions. Tuberville has been pushing for votes on individual nominees, but Democratic leaders had balked at his demand.<\/p>\n

Schumer on Wednesday angrily blasted Tuberville\u2019s moves as partisan games but acknowledged that some confirmations needed to move ahead as soon as possible to keep the ongoing political fight from turning into a national security threat.<\/p>\n

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