How long can it last and how will it end? Those questions are still unanswered five months into U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s freeze on Defense Department leadership promotions and new appointees.
FILE - Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., listens during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine the nomination of Army Lt. Gen. Randy George to be reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff of the Army, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
“You can see the pressure starting to ramp up on him,” Josh Huder of the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University said of Tuberville last week. “The Executive Branch is saying, ‘Look at what you’re doing.’ They’re making all sorts of hay out of it. That was a reference to retired U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican known for seeing that federal money supported Alabama military installations. Shelby briefly froze all former President Barack Obama’s appointees in a dispute of health care changes.
“It touches on a pretty live wire issue for Democrats and Republicans – access to abortion,” Binder said. “What to do in the wake of the Supreme Court decision? It’s harder for to give him something.” “The question is: What does Congress do to respond to that? There’s always tension between the Legislative and Executive ,” Huder said. “The Legislative grants power to the Executive, it’s up to the Executive to interpret that and the Legislative holds the Executive accountable.
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