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KYIV. January 23, UNN. The lower house of the US parliament passed a bill banning US President Donald Trump from using public funds to withdraw from the North Atlantic Alliance, the newspaper reported. Defense News, UNN .
In defense of NATO, 357 members of the House of Representatives voted against – 22.
According to the Congress website, the draft was submitted to Parliament on January 17. Already on January 22, he had been rejected. According to the Congress website, the adoption process took exactly half an hour. To become a law, the bill must still be voted in the Senate and then signed by the president.
The bill was submitted to the lower house a day after the publication of another article by The New York Times with Trump Camp leaks. This time, there was talk of the President's wish to come back to the idea of a NATO exit.
According to traditionally anonymous sources of information, Trump has repeatedly stated privately his wish to withdraw from NATO. The US leader has spoken with senior officials responsible for national security issues that "do not make sense in the military alliance".
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