Senate Advances Trump’s Foreign Policy With Bill To Protect NATO Against Him

A safeguard for NATO is signed into law that suggests President Trump could call the bluff of Europeans who shout ‘Yankee, go home.’

Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP
Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, shakes hands with Sweden's prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, right, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg looks on prior to a meeting ahead of a NATO summit at Vilnius, Lithuania. Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP

President Trump has made it clear that in a second term, he’ll again push NATO allies to pay more on defense. Many imagine that as a threat to abandon the alliance, one opponents are acting to prevent — and thereby advancing Mr. Trump’s foreign policy goals even if he loses.

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