After weeks of insisting that white nationalism doesn’t equal racism, and tripling down on that opinion over the last 24 hours, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) eventually told reporters at the Capitol that “white nationalists are racists.”
, “Listen, I’m totally against racism. And if Democrats want to say that white nationalists are racist, I’m totally against that too.”“Well, that’s your definition,” Tuberville said. “My definition is racism is bad.”
In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Tuberville to apologize, saying, “The definition of white nationalism is not a matter of opinion.”Tuberville’s protest of the Department of Defense’s reproductive health care policies has blocked the military promotions of more than 250 officers. over the Pentagon’s decision to pay for the travel
of service members if they need to leave the state in which they’re stationed to receive reproductive care, including abortions. He opposes the policy, although the military pays for only the travel, not the procedure itself. Thus far Tuberville’s hold has stopped the promotion of 260 officers, a number that could climb to 650 by year’s end if it isn’t lifted. Most recently, the senator blocked a vote on a new leader for the Marines,
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