{"id":10535,"date":"2023-04-26T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:35:57","slug":"gop-sen-tuberville-blocked-184-military-promotions-in-his-ongoing-abortion-fight-with-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10535","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. Tuberville blocked 184 military promotions in his ongoing abortion fight with the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Warren and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin say the promotions are critical to military readiness, and Tuberville is blocking pay raises and preventing key leaders from taking their posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One senator is jeopardizing America\u2019s national security,&#8221;&nbsp;Warren said on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The promotion of Shoshana Chatfield to vice admiral and as the&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;representative to the NATO military committee is especially urgent, Warren said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At this critical juncture of Russia\u2019s illegal invasion of Ukraine, we need her leadership in NATO now more than ever,&#8221;&nbsp;she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blocking military promotions leaves America more vulnerable, Austin said last month during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There are a number of things happening globally that indicate that we could be in a contest on any one given day,&#8221;&nbsp;he said. &#8220;Not approving the recommendations for promotions actually creates a ripple effect through the force that makes us far less ready than we need to be.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/gop-sen-tuberville-blocked-184-230233459.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/gop-sen-tuberville-blocked-184-230233459.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Warren and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin say the promotions are critical to military readiness, and Tuberville is blocking pay raises and preventing key leaders from taking their posts.<br \/>\n&#8220;One senator is jeopardizing America\u2019s national security,&#8221; Warren said on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion of Shoshana Chatfield to vice admiral and as the U.S. representative to the NATO military committee is especially urgent, Warren said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this critical juncture of Russia\u2019s illegal invasion of Ukraine, we need her leadership in NATO now more than ever,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Blocking military promotions leaves America more vulnerable, Austin said last month during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a number of things happening globally that indicate that we could be in a contest on any one given day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not approving the recommendations for promotions actually creates a ripple effect through the force that makes us far less ready than we need to be.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,129,259,968,506,865],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-gop","tag-military","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions\/10536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}