Nikki Haley joins Senate Republican leadership in condemning Tommy Tuberville for being effective.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley adopted White House talking points Tuesday when she condemned Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military promotions over the administration’s embrace of far-left social policy.
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, the Republican presidential candidate said Tuberville’s standoff with the Pentagon over the military’s embrace of abortion and transgenderism jeopardized national security.
Tuberville placed a hold on military promotions when the Defense Department implemented a new abortion policy allowing servicemembers three weeks of paid leave and travel in pursuit of the deadly procedure. Federal law prohibits U.S. tax dollars from funding abortion.
The administration’s “new abortion policy is immoral and arguably illegal,” Tuberville said on the Senate floor in March, noting if Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “wants to change the law, he needs to go through Congress.”Haley Stands With Mitch McConnell
Haley railed against Tuberville’s move to rip the Pentagon out of the abortion business as “shameful” and tied the senator’s effort to the military’s recruiting crisis.
“There’s got to be other ways to go about doing this,” Haley said on Hewitt’s program.
You know, I mean, in a time where our recruitment is 25 percent down and you know, 80 percent of those recruits typically come from military families, and military parents are telling their kids not to go into the military, it’s because they don’t feel like anybody’s got the military’s back.
“It’s totally wrong that the Department of Defense is doing this,” Haley added, “but have we gotten so low that this is how we have to go about stopping it?”
Haley sounds more similar to Senate Republicans who repeatedly prefer to turn a blind eye to administrative abuses than a champion for conservative voters seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
