Tuberville Blocks Promotion Of Austin’s Senior Aide

The Washington Post reports:

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark to become the four-star commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific, according to the senator’s spokeswoman, Mallory Jaspers. The maneuver, which has not been previously reported, restricts Clark’s nomination from coming up for a vote in the Senate and could mark the beginning of the end of his 36-year military career.

“Sen. Tuberville has concerns about Lt. Gen. Clark’s actions during Secretary Austin’s hospitalization,” Jaspers told The Washington Post in a statement. “Lt. Gen. Clark knew that Sec. Austin was incapacitated and did not tell the Commander in Chief.”

Read the full article. Tuberville previously blocked the promotions of dozens of top soldiers over the Pentagon’s abortion policy. This is more grandstanding.

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