Arizona Senator John McCain has spent the past year betraying the Republican Party by making it as hard as possible for President Donald Trump to get things done. This week, McCain launched his latest plan against the president when he threatened Trump’s defense nominees over the Army’s plan to offer mental-health waivers.
Business Insider reported that McCain spoke out on Tuesday to say that the Senate Armed Services Committee could delay Trump’s nominees for defense positions because of dissatisfaction with the Army’s announcement of a plan to offer waivers for recruits with histories of some mental-health conditions. This comes after it was reported that the Army had lifted a ban on mental-health waivers and will allow people with histories of self-mutilation, bipolar disorder, depression, and drug and alcohol abuse to request them.
McCain expressed his disdain for this policy change during a confirmation hearing for three nominees on Tuesday.
“It’s a problem we’ve been having with this administration,” McCain said, according to Military Times. “We should have been told about this before it showed up in a USA Today article. The Army did not respond to a question of how many waivers, if any, have been issued since the policy was changed.”
McCain, who has already held up the nomination process several times this year, went on to say that it seemed to him the only way to get the Pentagon to provide information was to force defense officials to testify in open hearings or stop confirming nominees.
Unfortunately for McCain, however, Twitter users have made it clear that they are sick of seeing him attack Trump
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