take a look. senator tommy tuberville of america, faced backlash after his own party, who angrily challenge his months-long blockade. they unanimously improved 61 military promotions by voice note for four hours. he rejected each nomination as his colleagues frustrations grew. we have done the best that we can to honor the request a fellow senator. that these nominations be bought to the floor and voted on, initially. and i really respect men of their word. i do not respect, and do not honor men who do not honor their word. no matter what you think, tuberville, this is doing damage to our military. i do not say that lightly. if this is the norm, who the hell wants to serve in the military when you have a promotion that can be canned based on something that you had nothing to do with? simply a, in my opinion, of abuse of the powers that we have as senators. to say if there is something that we vehemently disagree with, that we are going to use that power to hold up the
the department nearly 25 billion more than the president s budget request yet the administration views additional data collection and training requirements to counter the threat of extremism as on orous. we heard that about sexual assault before the department real ietzed it was failing and needed greater tools and documented systemic racism under the code of military justice for at least 50 years, yet the department is making little if any progress to address that whether sexual assault. racial injustice the department tells congress we can handle it. commanders are responsible. studying it and ready to fight tonight. we cannot wait years let alone decades in the face of ob sti nance from the department before meeting the challenges of extremism in the armed forces. the time to address it now. there are many important issues for our military to address in addition to the ongoing
0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced we ll implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u.s. troops who remain there by january 15th. on january 15th he announced there were 2500 troops left. on january 20th biden became president. 2500 troops were then in afghanistan. on april 14th president biden announced his intention to continue the withdrawal all regular u.s. troops by september 11th. four months after the pre-planned may 1st deadline. on july 2nd italy and germany withdrew their troops on july 17th we have had specific testimony here on what then happened from july 17th on. a
well. a bill on the floor open to amendment, actual debate, yes, it s going to happen right here. stay tuned on cspan. next week could be historic. it s been over a year and a half since we ve had a meaningful debate on the floor, but next week we will. the topic, immigration and daca. reporter: and today senate democratic leader chuck shumer said it won t be easy, but they ve got to try. dana? dana: i m pretty excited about it. unlike senator durbin, i m just gonna watch it here on fox not cspan. what is the reaction to president trump s new budget proposal? reporter: paul ryan telling reporters, quote, this budget lays out a thoughtful detailed and responsible blue print for achieving our shared agenda, builds on last week s budget agreement by focusing on building our national defense and promoting a stronger economy. chris van holland a member of the budget committee ripped it
the president recommends a cut in nonmilitary spending that would lower the federal budget deficit by $3 trillion over ten years, and then $200 billion in federal funds for 1.5 2kz trillion for infrastructure investments over the next ten years. a very different budget than previous republican budget. what do you make of it? well, i think the cuts that they re touting are just sort of spending increases at a little bit of a lower rate. at the end of the day, this budget still does spike the deficit, raises debt as a percentage of gdp. it s because we re basically making cuts to discretionary program, which is an increasingly smaller part of the federal budget. as paul ryan made the case for years, we re not going to be able to fix the problem of a spiralling federal budget if we don t take entitlement programs seriously. that s what this budget doesn t do. i think the budget is really going to be the talking points for the administration going forward this year. i don t think congres