Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, which collapsed over thirty years ago. Since then, U.S. participation has cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and continues to risk U.S. involvement in foreign wars. Our Constitution did not authorize permanent foreign entanglements, something our Founding Fathers explicitly warned us against. America should not be the world’s security blanket—especially when wealthy countries refuse to pay for their own defense," Massie said, according to a press release.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced the "Not a Trusted Organization Act," or "NATO Act" in the Senate earlier this year — Massie is now fielding companion legislation in the House.
‘AMEREXIT’? REPUBLICANS PUSH FOR US TO LEAVE NATO AMID STALLED UKRAINE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
The NATO emblem is seen while the NATO Summit is held in the city, in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 12, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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"Consistent with Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington April 4, 1949, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall give notice of denunciation of the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of withdrawing the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," the proposal declares.
"No funds authorized to be appropriated, appropriated, or otherwise made available by any Act may be used to fund, directly or indirectly, United States contributions to the common-funded budgets of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, including the civil budget, the military budget, or the Security Investment Program," the text of the measure stipulates.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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