Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy’s No. 2 officer, has been leading the service on an acting basis because of the impasse.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Navy’s top officer, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, said it could take the service years to recover from the impacts of Sen. Tommy Tuberville‘s blockade of hundreds of senior military promotions.

Franchetti told the Senate Armed Services Committee during her confirmation hearing Thursday that the impasse has created “a lot of uncertainty” for Navy families.

“Just at the three-star level, it would take about three to four months just to move all the people around,” Franchetti said. “But it will take years to recover … from the promotion delays that we would see.”

  • watson387
    52·
    10 months ago

    This is not how the government should work. One person should not have enough power to obstruct anything. Whiners. That’s all Republicans are. They whine and cry and if they don’t get their way they just refuse to do their jobs. Pieces of shit all.

    • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Does he have the power all by himself? I couldn’t find much information on exactly how he’s blocking them. Is it a filibuster or something like it, where they could simply override him if 9 Republicans were willing to vote with the Democrats to end his block? Or is it something else where he truly, even if all the other senators disagreed, has this ability?

      If it is something like a filibuster, then this isn’t just him blocking promotions - it’s the entire Republican side of the senate blocking promotions, with him as a figurehead.

      • meant2live218@lemmy.world
        10·
        10 months ago

        From what I had read somewhere, the holdup is in batching a ton of the promotions into a single voting item. Batching them together requires a unanimous vote, so by voting against it, Tuberville gets to hold the entire process hostage. Promotions can still occur, but each promotion would likely take weeks or months of work and deliberations.

        • n2burns@lemmy.ca
          7·
          10 months ago

          To add to that, Republican senate leadership could replace him on the Senate Committee on Armed Services with someone who would support these promotions. By not doing so, their leadership is showing support for him and his position.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    521·
    10 months ago

    It’s not the “Tuberville Blockade”. It’s the “Conservative Blockade”. They are all doing this. He is just the arrogant, grinning, evil face of it this time around. But they are ALL complicit.

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
    8·
    10 months ago

    Before military promotion and assignment was apolitical. As such, a mid to high level military commander could speak truth and not worry about civilian politics killing his career (military politics was and will always be there)

    Now every ambitious major and colonel seeking a career has to factor in capital hill (and white house) whenever they speak at a meeting or hearing

    Thanks Tuberville

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      234·
      10 months ago

      Tell me you have zero understanding of geopolitics and global defense policy implications without telling me you have zero understanding of geopolitics and global defense policy implications

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          162·
          10 months ago

          I’ve got no illusions about how shitty America is in a lot of ways. The fact that we have a military whose primary purpose is to exist as a force in being to dissuade large, authoritarian, expansionist, and (regardless of whatever tankie revisionism you’ll undoubtedly spout) neo-imperialist countries (China, Russia) from simply redrawing the lines on the map as they see fit and rolling their tanks in is emphatically not one of America’s shitty aspects.

          And yes, our military has been used to do shitty things for shitty reasons. I am not justifying or excusing that; it’s right to call us and our politicians out for that idiocy. But our military has also made the casual military use of nuclear weapons since the end of WW2 by anyone a non-starter. On balance, I think that’s a pretty clear net positive. And the majority of Americans are trying to push things in a better direction, despite the political and electoral mechanisms that are aimed at preventing us from doing so.