Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville seems to have finally found a vocal ally in his war against military readiness: Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. Tuberville has single-handedly blocked more than 300 military promotions and nominations, for over six months, and justifiably received criticism from all corners of the government for this unpopular position. Lee took time away from retweeting COVID-19 misinformation to throw his ignorant hat into the ring, attacking Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and the entire Pentagon.
Lee first told Lloyd, “Stop funding abortion travel. And stop demonizing @SenTuberville for calling you out.” He followed that up by writing, “It’s time to de-fund @SecDef.” He escalated this big idea by tweeting that “Pentagon leaders” had stopped “fighting America’s enemies” and were now attacking Americans like Tuberville, ending with a flourish that these Pentagon leaders were “[w]aging war on American babies It’s time to cut Pentagon funding.”
The Utah senator’s comments came after the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force penned an op-ed criticizing Tuberville for placing a “blanket hold on all general and flag officer nominees,” since these are traditionally “apolitical officials,” turning the process into a partisan attack…
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