“The Democrats are attacking our military, saying we need to get out the white extremists, the white nationalists,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said in an interview published online Monday.
Redstone Arsenal has emerged through multiple assessments as the best location for Space Command. Yet the decision remains undetermined despite an Air Force announcement more than two years ago that Redstone was the preferred location.
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee cautioned Monday that a Republican senator’s stalling tactic on Defense Department promotions will eventually harm the military and deadlock the upper chamber’s routine confirmation process for officer nominees.
The Republican is holding up the Senate confirmations over a new Pentagon policy that gives service-members three weeks of PTO to travel for an abortion.