{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato", "Lee Introduces Withdrawal from NATO", "2025-06-25", "2025", "2025-06", "Republican", "Senate", "UT", "Mike Lee", "L000577", "www.lee.senate.gov", "mikelee", "https://www.lee.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 As NATO concludes another ineffective summit, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Not A Trusted Organization (NATO) Act today to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s withdrawal from NATO is long overdue,\u201d said Senator Mike Lee. \u201cNATO has run its course \u2013 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.\u201d\n\nThe Not A Trusted Organization (NATO) Act:\n\nEnsures the complete U.S. withdrawal from NATO:\n\nDirects the President to provide notice of denunciation of U.S. membership in NATO, consistent with Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty\n\nSatisfies the requirement for congressional authorization of withdrawal, consistent with section 1250A of the FY24 NDAA\n\nProhibits the use of U.S. funds to directly or indirectly contribute to NATO\u2019s common-funded budgets", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T01:08:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8810670115053654, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}