U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R. Ala. says he is glad to see the reversal of the Pentagon policy covering travel costs for service members and their dependents who must cross state lines to receive abortions and other reproductive care.

“For the past two years, I have been sounding the alarm about the Pentagon’s illegal and immoral practice of using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions,” Tuberville said in a release today.

“I took a lot of heat when I stood alone for nearly a year in holding senior Pentagon promotions over this—but as of today, it was all worth it.”

The change was announced in a memo posted by the Defense Travel Management Office on Wednesday, but it went into effect the day before.

“The Biden administration treated taxpayers like their own personal Piggy bank that they could use to bankroll their woke agenda,” Tuberville said in the release.

“President Trump and Secretary Hegseth affirmed today what I’ve been fighting for since I got to Washington: zero taxpayer dollars should go towards abortions.”

In 2023, Tuberville put a 10 month hold on more than 425 military promotions requiring Senate confirmation in protest of the travel policy.

The holds, for months, raised concerns at the Pentagon about military readiness and top military leaders, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, warned that Tuberville’s hold could lead to the possibility of losing talent.

“I took a beating for a year from the media, Democrats, and even some Republicans,” Tuberville posted to X on Friday.

“Worth it.”

“Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership, the Pentagon will once again be focused on lethality, not pushing a political agenda,” Tuberville said in Friday’s release.

“Thank God common sense has been restored to our military under President Trump’s leadership.”

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and 18 other Democratic and independent senators released an open letter this morning decrying the reversal.

“This decision strips away service members’ ability to access the reproductive care they need, which is nothing short of abhorrent,” Shaheen writes.

“It runs contrary to a core goal of the Department of Defense — to ensure the health and well-being of all our service members so that our force remains ready at all times to protect Americans and keep this nation safe.”

The letter adds that “at a time when we are already facing military recruitment and retention challenges, we should do all we can to assure those who answer the call to service America that we will do everything in our power to support them and their families.”

“Instead, this extreme action does the opposite and sends a message to servicewomen-who make up more than 17 percent of our military’s active duty-that they are not as valuable as their male counterparts.”