As NATO leaders gathered at one other summit, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) launched a sweep methodology to drive the US allies to withdraw from the alliance and to drive them to depend on European taxpayers to drive them to pay shares.
“The US withdrawal from NATO has been delayed for a very long time,” Lee mentioned in a press release Wednesday. “NATO is operating that course. The menace that existed on the time of its inception is not related in 76 years. If so, Europe pays their justifiable share, relatively than letting American taxpayers choose up checks for many years.
“It’s time to go away NATO,” Lee mentioned. Posted Wednesday at X
The Utah Senator additionally launched two companion payments on Tuesday — the Allied Burden Share Reporting Act and the NATO’s Burden Share Reporting Act — goals to show which Allied nations haven’t donated their promised shares to collective protection. The Act requires the Department of Defense to supply an annual report detailing the protection spending, navy preparation and restrictions imposed on navy contributions for every alliance. The NATO-specific report will go additional by assessing the protection trade foundations of every member state, its contribution to Ukraine, and its dependence on the US navy property.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who helps the invoice, gave a poignant evaluation of America’s function within the alliance.
“Our NATO allies count on the US to be a sugar dad and a cop of the world whereas they sit and let the US sit and do heavy lifts. President Trump was proper, so it is time for them to tug their weight out.
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) mirrored these issues in assist of the invoice.
According to 1 pager on Lee’s invoice, NATO Allies reaffirmed its 2% defence spending pledge eventually 12 months’s summit in Washington. However, a 3rd of member international locations nonetheless don’t meet their benchmarks.
“America has lengthy been the burden of @Nato Freeloaders,” Lee wrote on X on Tuesday.