{"id":596214,"date":"2023-11-01T05:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T02:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/schumer-moves-on-military-nominations-after-marine-corps-general-hospitalized\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T02:12:56","slug":"schumer-moves-on-military-nominations-after-marine-corps-general-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schumer-moves-on-military-nominations-after-marine-corps-general-hospitalized\/","title":{"rendered":"#Schumer moves on military nominations after Marine Corps general hospitalized\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/schumerchuck_102423gn06_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved forward with three military nominations Tuesday, despite Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-Ala.) months-long hold on them.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer filed cloture on the nominations of Adm. Lisa Franchetti\u00a0for chief of naval operations, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin for chief of staff of the Air Force and Lt. Gen. Christopher Mahoney for assistant commandant of the Marine Corps. His decision comes just two days after Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith was hospitalized\u00a0due to a \u201cmedical emergency\u201d\u00a0Sunday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis scary incident involving <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Smith shows why it\u2019s supremely risky to play politics with military <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointments, as Sen. Tuberville is doing,\u201d Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday.\u00a0\u201cEmergencies happen, and when they do, the chain of command must be able to respond but thanks to Senator Tuberville, there is no current number two at the Marine Corps to fill in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation at the Marine Corps is precisely the kind of avoidable emergency that Senator Tuberville has provoked through his blanket holds,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine\u2019s assistant commandant is typically the one to step in to the role if the commandant is unavailable, but due to Tuberville\u2019s hold that is not the case. Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl, the deputy commandant for combat development and integration and commanding general of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, is serving as the interim acting head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House nominated Mahoney for the job in July, but his nomination is one of the many that Tuberville held up due to his objection over the Pentagon policy to reimburse <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> expenses for service members seeking abortions out of state from where they are based.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schumer also urged Tuberville to drop his holds \u201cat once\u201d in his floor speech. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day that Senator Tuberville continues his blanket holds, our military preparedness is worse off. Our military families suffer. Our military appointments risk being further ensnared in partisan politics, which is a point of no return we must never cross in the Senate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Tuberville\u2019s office said the Alabama Republican \u201cforced this move by Senator Schumer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an admission by Chuck Schumer that the Senate is capable of voting on military nominations after all,\u201d the spokesperson said.\u00a0\u201cThis is the second time Coach has forced Schumer to vote and it just shows that Coach and 16 other Republicans can do this to Senator Schumer as many times as they want.\u00a0And maybe they will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This also comes as Senate Democrats, Sen.\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema\u00a0(I-Ariz.) and a handful of Republicans are looking to\u00a0pursue a rarely used procedural tactic\u00a0to defeat Tuberville\u2019s blockade as he continues to protest the Department of Defense\u2019s abortion policies.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It involves a standing resolution that would let the Senate move military promotions in a group through the end of 2024, with exceptions for officers nominated to a position on the Joint Chiefs of Staff or to lead a Combatant Command. However, it would need at least nine Republican votes to pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-Ala.) months-long hold on them. Schumer filed cloture on the nominations of Adm. Lisa Franchetti\u00a0for chief of naval operations, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin for chief of staff of the Air Force and Lt&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/schumerchuck_102423gn06_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,117,134343,71313,139529,124783,145568,115,70289,135954],"class_list":["post-596214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-business","tag-campaign","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-defense-national-security","tag-international","tag-military-promotions","tag-news","tag-senate","tag-tommy-tuberville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}