Tommy Tuberville hinted to his fellow Republicans Tuesday that he would finally end the blockade on military nominations he’s imposing in protest of Pentagon policy covering abortion costs for service members. “I got y’all into this mess,” the Alabama senator told his colleagues during a closed-door lunch, amid bipartisan frustration over his stunt. “I’m gonna get you out.”

The comments, first reported by Punchbowl News, heartened some members of his conference. But, notably, the former football coach apparently did not reveal exactly how he would go about ending the standoff, raising doubts over his promise to stand down. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to unveil a resolution that would go around the Alabama senator and “swiftly confirm” the more than 350 nominations he’s blocked by the end of the year. “Extreme and unprecedented obstruction by a single Republican Senator has eroded centuries of Senate norms and injected extreme partisanship into what has long been a bipartisan process,” Schumer wrote in a Dear Colleague letter Sunday, as lawmakers prepared to return to work after the Thanksgiving holiday.

It's unlikely that Tuberville would derail Schumer's plan, and the Republican suggested that he would end the blockade before Schumer puts the resolution on the floor to “avoid putting [Republicans] in a tough spot,” as Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio reported. “People are just getting exhausted,” one Senate Republican told the outlet.

Indeed, while no Republicans joined with Democrats to pass the resolution out of the Rules Committee, GOP senators have been increasingly public their frustrations with Tuberville—particularly after he blocked their attempt to confirm dozens of military nominees through unanimous consent earlier this month. “The idea that some of these officers are supposedly woke or desk jockeys, it’s ridiculous,” Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan said at the time, describing Tuberville’s stand as a “national security suicide mission.” South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham expressed a similar sentiment. “No matter whether you believe it or not,” he told Tuberville, “this is doing great damage to our military.”

Tuberville, a leading Donald Trump loyalist in the upper chamber, does seem to believe the military has been damaged. But he has blamed it all on “wokeness”—not the hundreds of nominations he has single-handedly held up. “We’ve got the weakest military that we’ve had in probably your or my lifetime,” the senator told Newsmax host Eric Bolling Monday. “We’ve got a lot of good military people, but infiltrating our military is all this wokeness.”