H.R. 6508

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6508 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 9, 2025

Mr. Massie introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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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 Organization, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Not A Trusted Organization Act'' or 
the ``NATO Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:
(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 affirms that the 
Parties will ``unite their efforts for collective defense''. 
Similarly, Article 3 of the Washington Treaty provides that 
each Party will ``maintain and develop their individual and 
collective capacity 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 Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand 
eastward.
(6) The dissolution of both the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet 
Union fundamentally altered the security environment in Europe 
and rendered NATO's founding collective defense mission 
irrelevant.
(7) Despite its waning relevance and prior assurances to 
the contrary, NATO began a profound eastward expansion in 1999, 
which, as of 2025, culminated in a land border with the Russian 
Federation that exceeds 1,500 miles and encircles the Baltic 
Sea.
(8) Successive National Military Doctrines and National 
Security Strategies of the Russian Federation have framed the 
expansion of NATO as a pervasive threat to Russian security.
(9) In a speech before the Munich Security Conference in 
2007, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin 
described NATO expansion as a ``serious provocation'' and 
referenced the assurances previously made by the United States.
(10) The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 
2022 demonstrates the Russian Federation's willingness to 
employ military action in response to perceived security 
threats.
(11) NATO members have refused to rule out further 
expansion.
(12) Since the founding of NATO, the United States has 
shouldered the burden of what was characterized 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 security 
interests, Europe is not a priority theater for United States 
engagement. The principal interest of the United States in 
Europe is preventing the emergence of a regional hegemon.
(16) The combined military and economic capacity of 
European NATO members exceeds that of the Russian Federation, 
serving as a sufficient counterweight to a prospective regional 
hegemon without United States engagement.
(17) While the United States continues to subsidize 
European security, European NATO members are disincentivized 
from forward movement on burden shifting in the European 
theater.
(18) Membership of the United States in NATO is 
inconsistent with the national security interests 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, 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.

SEC. 6. SEVERABILITY.

If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision 
to any person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the 
remainder of this Act and the application of the provision to any other 
person or circumstance shall not be affected.
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