White House Quotes Senate GOP Slamming Tuberville’s ‘Dangerous Blockade’ On Military Promotions

On Thursday, Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) block on military promotions.

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00:00 And finally, finally, before I turn it over, over the past few months, you have heard scores

00:06 of current and former national security officials, veterans, and hundreds of military spouses

00:12 and families sound the alarm on Senator Tommy Tuberville's dangerous blockade on many, on

00:20 many and nearly 380 military appointments.

00:24 Yesterday, Republican senators joined that call and I will lay out a few quotes from

00:32 some of them.

00:33 Senator Republican leader Mitch McConnell said, "Those holes are a bad idea."

00:37 Republican Senator Joni Ernst said that Tuberville was using nominees as political pawns and

00:44 I do not respect men who do not honor their word.

00:47 Republican Senator Dan Sullivan said that Tuberville's blockade is 100% wrong, will

00:53 be remembered as a national security suicide mission and a downgrade of our readiness.

01:00 Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said, "Senator Tuberville is doing great damage to our military."

01:10 Let me say that again, Senator Tuberville is doing great damage to our military.

01:15 Republican Senator Todd Young said, "Tuberville's holes just doesn't make sense to me."

01:22 And Republican Senator Mitt Romney said, "We recognize that there is a personal suffering

01:28 as well as issues of military readiness, so we need to act.

01:33 We need to act."

01:35 Nearly all of them warned of the risk we face of service members leaving military service

01:40 if its blockade continues.

01:43 So we agree.

01:44 We've been very clear about this for the past several months.

01:48 These vacancies are causing serious damage to our military readiness and our national

01:53 security and they are causing stress and disruption to our military families across the chain

01:59 of command and for military spouses and also their families.

02:04 The world is too dangerous.

02:06 It is too dangerous to play political games with our military.

02:11 So we are pleased to see that the Senate is taking action.

02:14 Senator Tuberville needs to end this damaging hold on all of our military nominees as soon

02:20 as possible.