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This bill would make it U.S. policy to remain a member in good standing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), work with NATO members to meet their defense spending commitments, and reject efforts to withdraw the U.S. from NATO by prohibiting the use of funds for those activities. It’d also support robust U.S. funding for the European Deterrence Initiative, which bolsters the ability of NATO allies to deter and defend against Russian aggression.

Further, the bill would express the sense of Congress that the Supreme Court decision Goldwater v. Carter isn’t controlling legal precedent for U.S. withdrawal from a treaty. The 1979 decision rejected a legal question raised by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) regarding President Jimmy Carter’s (D) withdrawing the U.S. from a defense treaty with Taiwan unilaterally. The Court held that matter wasn’t fit for judicial review and was fundamentally a political question because Congress hadn’t registered its disapproval by passing a resolution — which would’ve created grounds for constitutional review.

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