The national security adviser to Sen. Tommy Tuberville has resigned after The Post disclosed he presented Tuberville with the highly controversial strategy to stop a new Defense Department policy that helps ensure access to abortions for service members.
began to ban or tightly restrict abortion, the military enacted a policy that reimburses travel costs and provides leave for service members who seek the procedure.Tuberville chose the strategy of using his senatorial powers to delay military promotions that are subject to confirmation by the chamber.
Politico was the first to report Wednesday that Murphy has resigned. Murphy did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment on his departure. Tuberville’s office declined to comment.that he thought The Post’s story “overstated” his role and that he resigned out of respect for Tuberville.
“He is the boss and calls the shots and always has,” Murphy told Politico. “I am, was, at the end of the day, a staffer. I didn’t take kindly to a perception otherwise.”Tuberville’s tactic, which he began using in March, has drawn the ire of the Pentagon as well as Democratic Senate leaders. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has called Tuberville’s blockade “a clear risk to U.S. military readiness.”— including two who served in the administration of President Donald Trump — wrote in a letter to Senate leaders that Tuberville’s tactic “risks turning military officers into political pawns, holding them responsible for a policy decision made by their civilian leader.”
Murphy’s role in presenting Tuberville with the tactic was part of a larger story focused on Murphy’s background. A former Navy captain, Murphy also is a former food critic who once worked at Vanity Fair and has made multiple appearances on the home-shopping network QVC.
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