Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville reportedly loosened his grip on holding Senate approval for military promotions en masse after months of blocking them until the Pentagon makes internal changes to its abortion policy. “I’m not going to hold the promotions of these people any longer‚” Tuberville told reporters on Tuesday. “We fought hard. We did the right thing for the unborn and for our military‚ fighting back against executive overreach and an abortion policy.” Tuberville held up approval of mass military promotions since February‚ a blockade used to persuade changes to a Department of Defense (DoD) policy that reimburses military members who travel out of state for abortions. The Pentagon invoked the policy after the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade‚ leaving the issue of abortion legality and limits up to state governments. Tuberville’s hold did not block military promotions entirely. The Senate considered approving promotions one at a time while Democrats brought some cases up for a vote for certain top-level positions. However‚ Tuberville’s hold prevented voting on multiple cases simultaneously as a time-saving move. “I think we saw some success‚” Tuberville reportedly said. “We didn’t get as much out of it as we wanted. But again‚ when they change the rules on you‚ I had no opportunity to‚ other than possibly down the road‚ a lawsuit‚ but that has nothing to do with the holds. That needs to be done in a separate way.” Tuberville suggested his efforts didn’t get the result intended‚ noting that the policy is still “bad.” “We tried to stand up for the taxpayers of this country‚” he said. Tuberville reportedly plans to hold his four-star nominees‚ but intends to release the rest effective immediately‚ allowing the Senate to confirm most of the promotions as soon as Tuesday evening and likely before the beginning of 2024. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY) told reporters the chamber of Congress will move “as soon as possible” to confirm the promotions. The Wall Street Journal reported that as of November 27‚ the hold on promotions impacted at least 451 generals and admirals who waited in limbo for nearly ten months. A U.S. Defense official reportedly said 11 of those on hold are four-star admirals or generals. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder‚ a Pentagon spokesman‚ told reporters the news of Tuberville’s lift encouraged the Defense Department. “We’ll continue to stay engaged with Sen. Tuberville in the Senate directly to urge that all the holds on all our general flag officer nominations be lifted‚ to include those nominated for four-star‚” he said. Tim Pierce contributed to this report.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said that leftist governments in Latin America will eventually crash into the “rocks of reality” as their socialist policies wreck their countries‚ in the latest episode of his YouTube show “Facts.” In the episode‚ Shapiro pointed to the “wonderful” election of Right-leaning libertarian Javier Milei in Argentina as a sign that the leftist governments that had risen to power throughout the region during so-called Pink Waves were faltering. “That Pink Wave isn’t an iron wall‚ as it was with Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe – it is popularly elected Leftist governments in South and Latin America that have increasingly pursued not only economic redistributionism and nationalism of industry‚ but outright tyranny and anti-Americanism‚” Shapiro explained.  Shapiro pointed out how the American press often talked of the danger of authoritarianism abroad while ignoring the threat of socialism‚ which has taken hold of many Latin American countries. Throughout the rest of the episode‚ Shapiro explained the history of the first and second Pink Wave in Latin America and how it was propelled forward by the Sao Paolo Forum‚ a conference of leftist parties in the region that was founded in the 1990s to rebrand socialism and communism after the Soviet Union collapsed. The first Pink Wave took place after the Cold War with leaders like Hugo Chavez taking power in Venezuela and Lula da Silva being elected in Brazil in 2003. This wave later floundered in the years following the Great Recession in 2008. However‚ after 2018‚ leftist parties again began to take back power in countries like Argentina‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Honduras‚ and Chile. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The consequences of leftist rule in these countries have been disastrous‚ Shapiro said. For example‚ countries like Venezuela and Argentina have faced rampant inflation‚ while corruption constantly plagues countries like Mexico and Bolivia. “The pink tide that has risen‚ receded‚ and risen again will ultimately crash against the rocks of reality as it has in the past. Corruption and lack of rule of law create the preconditions for dissatisfaction with any government‚ but Left-wing governments in Latin and South America have channeled that dissatisfaction into anti-democratic centralization of power and impoverishment of their own citizenry‚” Shapiro concluded‚ saying that he hoped that Milei’s election was only the beginning of a shift away from Left-wing politics in the region. WATCH:

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