The U.S. Navy on Monday became the third branch of the military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in history, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations.

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Monday became the third branch of the military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in history, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations.

Retiring Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday gave up command on Monday. The Navy, Army and Marine Corps are now all without a confirmed leader.

  • ME5SENGER_24English
    157·
    1 year ago

    This should be grounds to dismiss the senate and call new elections

      • ME5SENGER_24English
        122·
        1 year ago

        I am American. I just think we’ve got a fucked up political system and can learn a lot from around the globe. I also support Ranked-choice voting and doing away with the two party system in favor of multiple parties (since there’s a lot of gray areas and less black or white). Once formed the parties can align forming coalitions to determine leadership of the upper and lower houses. While I’m at it, let’s add term limits and age limits to ALL 3 government branches (that’s right SCOTUS, I’m looking at you)

        Finally, I’d also love to see Question Time added to the US structure.

    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I sure love it when the President can dissolve legislative branches until he gets the party that he wants.😐

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        You have a point in that, if that worked, a bad president could just throw insane nominations out and when none of them got confirmed go “oh look, guess you don’t like my nominations, this is my power now.”