The Alabama Republican's abortion protest now seems likely to last more than six months, putting some of his colleagues in an increasingly tough spot over national security concerns.
Tommy Tuberville’s abortion-related blockade of military promotions is uncomfortably splintering both the Senate GOP and Alabama Republicans. Now they’ll spend the summer stewing about it.
The episode is in some ways a microcosm of the GOP as a whole, as the party weighs how far to take its opposition to President Joe Biden and his policies heading into a presidential election. In this case, one member is using scorched-earth tactics to fight the Biden administration over abortion policy, leaving other Republicans to answer for it.
Ultimately, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell successfully argued against it, in part because of the precedent it would set for the chamber’s minority party to force votes, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Senate left Thursday with no solution. But opposing Tuberville isn’t great optics for Alabama Republicans either. He’s stuck them right between a Biden administration policy they oppose and a consequential debate about national security.
It’s a somewhat awkward position for Tuberville’s colleague, Sen. Katie Britt . In a brief interview, the first-term Republican criticized the Pentagon policy but did not say whether she agreed with Tuberville’s tactics. Most other Alabama Republicans, however, shrugged off the suggestion that Britt should more forcefully join Tuberville’s efforts. First-term Rep. Dale Strong said simply: “He’s got his decisions he’s got to make, she’s got hers.” Because of Senate rules, it wouldn’t make much difference if Tuberville had other senators holding up nominees alongside him.
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