Tuberville is blocking over 100 military nominees in the Senate because he disagrees with a Pentagon policy on abortion, which provides travel funds for troops and their dependents who are seeking an abortion but live in a state where those procedures are now illegal. The WBHM interview comes as Tuberville is blocking military nominations

'I agree that we should not be characterizing Trump supporters as white nationalists,' he said. The reporter then asked if he agreed with that assumption. 'I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican,' Tuberville said in the interview, which was obtained by NPR. Politics Top General Defends Studying Critical Race Theory In The Military Do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? 'They're destroying it.'įollowing those comments, WBHM reporter Richard Banks asked Tuberville to clarify his comments on white nationalists saying, 'You mentioned the Biden administration trying to prevent white nationalists from being in the military. 'The Democrats are attacking our military, saying we need to get out the white extremists, the white nationalists, people that don't believe in our agenda, as Joe Biden's agenda,' Tuberville said in the WBHM interview conducted last week. Tuberville, who has been a strong supporter of Trump and voted to challenge the 2020 presidential election results, continues to attack Austin's efforts to rid the military of extremists. adults are veterans, according to the Census Bureau. More than 300 people at the Capitol that day have been arrested, and around 15% have former military ties, according to an NPR analysis. 6 following a speech by then-President Donald Trump and the presence there of some military veterans. These discussions were prompted by the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 'We are focused on extremist behaviors and not ideology - not people's thoughts, not people's political orientation. We don't embrace critical race theory, and I think that's a spurious conversation,' he said. to lose service members.ĭefense Secretary Lloyd Austin previously rebutted those claims during a 2021 House Armed Services hearing. Tuberville said that he thinks efforts to root out extremism - and critical race theory, which he contends is being taught in the military - are causing the U.S. When asked about whether that obstruction is hurting military readiness, Tuberville instead faulted the Biden administration. The lawmaker, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is under pressure for holding up military nominees over abortion policy he disagrees with. 'Look at Joe Biden's what he's done to our military with the woke ideas.We are losing in the military so fast,' Tuberville told NPR member station WBHM.

Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., claims that military recruitment is down because of liberal attacks on the military. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on April 20.

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