‘A Cold War relic’: GOP moves to pull US out of NATO

Some Republicans are pressing for a measure that would formally remove the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie decried the “Cold War relic” as he introduced legislation to cut U.S. ties with the decades-old alliance. U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announced her support in co-sponsoring the Kentucky Republican’s measure, while Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

Co-sponsoring this. https://t.co/kiFr2NqMY6

— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) December 10, 2025

“NATO is a Cold War relic. We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries,” said Massie, who introduced HR 6508, the NATO Act, this week.

“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,” he added, according to a press release.

The bill calls for a formal withdrawal of the U.S. from the alliance and states that “NATO’s original Cold War purpose no longer aligns with current U.S. national security interests.”

Further, Massie’s bill finds that “European NATO members have adequate economic and military capacity to provide for their own defense,” and calls for preventing the “use of U.S. taxpayer funds for NATO’s common budgets, including its civil budget, military budget, and the Security Investment Program.”

Sen. Lee introduced companion legislation, S.2174, in the Senate earlier this year called the “Not A Trusted Organization Act” or the “NATO Act.”

“America’s withdrawal from NATO is long overdue,” the Utah senator said in a statement in June. “NATO has run its course – the threats that existed at its inception are no longer relevant 76 years later. If they were, Europe would be paying their fair share instead of making American taxpayers pick up the check for decades. My legislation will put America first by withdrawing us from the raw deal NATO has become.”

According to Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty: “After the Treaty has been in force for twenty years, any Party may cease to be a Party one year after its notice of denunciation has been given to the Government of the United States of America, which will inform the Governments of the other Parties of the deposit of each notice of denunciation.”

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