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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6508 
To require the President to give notice of denunciation of the North Atlantic 
Treaty for purposes of withdrawing the United States from the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 9, 2025 
Mr. MASSIE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require the President to give notice of denunciation of 
the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of withdrawing 
the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Orga-
nization, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Not A Trusted Organi-
zation Act’’ or the ‘‘NATO Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
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(1) The North Atlantic Treaty (also known as 
the ‘‘Washington Treaty’’) was signed on April 4, 
1949, in Washington, DC, and created the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 
(2) NATO was intended to counterbalance the 
political and military power of the Soviet Union in 
Eastern Europe and was originally composed of 12 
member states representing Western Europe and its 
transatlantic partners. 
(3) The preamble to the Washington Treaty af-
firms that the Parties will ‘‘unite their efforts for 
collective defense’’. Similarly, Article 3 of the Wash-
ington Treaty provides that each Party will ‘‘main-
tain and develop their individual and collective ca-
pacity to resist armed attack’’. 
(4) The Warsaw Pact served as the collective 
defense bloc of the Soviet Union and collapsed in 
1991, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union 
itself by the end of that year. 
(5) Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet 
Union, United States Secretary of State James 
Baker made assurances to Soviet Union leader Mi-
khail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand east-
ward. 
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(6) The dissolution of both the Warsaw Pact 
and the Soviet Union fundamentally altered the se-
curity environment in Europe and rendered NATO’s 
founding collective defense mission irrelevant. 
(7) Despite its waning relevance and prior as-
surances to the contrary, NATO began a profound 
eastward expansion in 1999, which, as of 2025, cul-
minated in a land border with the Russian Federa-
tion that exceeds 1,500 miles and encircles the Bal-
tic Sea. 
(8) Successive National Military Doctrines and 
National Security Strategies of the Russian Federa-
tion have framed the expansion of NATO as a per-
vasive threat to Russian security. 
(9) In a speech before the Munich Security 
Conference in 2007, President of the Russian Fed-
eration Vladimir Putin described NATO expansion 
as a ‘‘serious provocation’’ and referenced the assur-
ances previously made by the United States. 
(10) The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian 
Federation in 2022 demonstrates the Russian Fed-
eration’s willingness to employ military action in re-
sponse to perceived security threats. 
(11) NATO members have refused to rule out 
further expansion. 
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(12) Since the founding of NATO, the United 
States has shouldered the burden of what was char-
acterized as a ‘‘collective’’ security alliance, as the 
largest financial and hard power contributor. 
(13) At the Wales Summit in 2014, NATO 
members pledged to spend 2 percent of their gross 
domestic product on defense, known as the ‘‘Wales 
Pledge’’. 
(14) More than a decade later, nearly 1⁄3 of 
NATO members fail to meet the Wales Pledge. 
(15) Consistent with United States national se-
curity interests, Europe is not a priority theater for 
United States engagement. The principal interest of 
the United States in Europe is preventing the emer-
gence of a regional hegemon. 
(16) The combined military and economic ca-
pacity of European NATO members exceeds that of 
the Russian Federation, serving as a sufficient coun-
terweight to a prospective regional hegemon without 
United States engagement. 
(17) While the United States continues to sub-
sidize European security, European NATO members 
are disincentivized from forward movement on bur-
den shifting in the European theater. 
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(18) Membership of the United States in 
NATO is inconsistent with the national security in-
terests of the United States. 
SEC. 3. DENUNCIATION OF NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY. 
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. 
SEC. 4. FULFILLMENT OF REQUIREMENT OF SECTION 1250A 
OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 
ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024. 
This Act satisfies the requirement of section 1250A 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2024 (22 U.S.C. 1928f) for congressional authorization 
of suspension, termination, denunciation, or withdrawal 
from the North Atlantic Treaty. 
SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS. 
No funds authorized to be appropriated, appro-
priated, or otherwise made available by any Act may be 
used to fund, directly or indirectly, United States con-
tributions to the common-funded budgets of the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization, including the civil budget, the 
military budget, or the Security Investment Program. 
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