Tuberville’s refusal to bend puts fellow Republicans in tough spot

Organizations representing veterans and military families have given up on trying to get Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville to relent on his blockade of military promotions. Tuberville has remained mulish that there’s only one way out of the mess he created: The Pentagon must end its policy of reimbursing servicemembers for travel to obtain abortion care out-of-state when necessary. The groups have tried lobbying and they’ve tried pressure, and Tuberville won’t budge.

"He's put his foot down, so we've moved on. We're not focused on Sen. Tuberville anymore," Besa Pinchotti, director of the National Military Family Association, told CBS News. "We're focused on moving these promotions forward in another way.” Mary Kaszynski, VoteVets director of government relations, echoed that, saying, “We’re now (focused) on the others around Sen. Tuberville in the Republican caucus and Republican donors.”