Conn Carroll is the commentary editor for the Washington Examiner. He served as a communications director in the U.S. Senate for seven years before returning to journalism. He is a graduate of the Antonin Scalia Law School and lives in northern Virginia with his wife and three children. You can follow him @conncarroll.
It is hard enough staring down a president and a Democratically controlled Senate, but Sen. Tommy Tuberville has been doing that for months and now has to take on turncoats in his own party.
The reasoning behind this unilateral rule change is there are military bases in states that now have stricter abortion regulations, such as Texas, Florida, and Georgia. Biden claims that if service members in these states aren’t given taxpayer dollars to travel out of state to get an abortion, then national security will suffer.
The reality is that we don’t need taxpayer-funded abortion travel to protect the country. The only reason Biden made this policy change was so that he could say his administration did something in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
Despite immense pressure from the White House and the Pentagon, Tuberville has held firm. And he held firm again Wednesday night when five of his Republican colleagues went to the Senate floor and attacked him for standing up for the Senate’s right to influence executive branch behavior through the appointment approval process.
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