Sen. Thom Tillis on Whether the U.S. Is Still a Reliable Partner to Europe: They Need to Step Up, ‘Not Let This Be Episodic’

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TILLIS: “: You know in some ways that were going to enter an era where our reliance on Europe is improve. Like I’ve got a challenge with some of the things coming out of the White House. But a lot. That frustration comes from a two trillion dollar shortfall in investing in our mutual defense, but far too many NATO allies, the other they’re making right now, but you have to give the administration and the president some latitude to point to the fact that a two trillion dollar shortfall over two decades. What is that done and to our readiness? What does that done? Tory innovation? What’s that done to our military industrial base and manufacturing capacity you, we could be scaling up late and compete capabilities that would have been serving that two trillion dollars to better serve Ukraine and better modernize our own weapon. So, let’s make sure that people look at those with balance and understand that apart. The reason why we are where we are is because we had that deficit in the 20 years in the first 20 years of this century. Now the NATO alliance is the most important alliance in the history of mankind and and the article one Branch Congress believes that and they believe it and large number so we’re gonna commit I’m here in Munich to basically remind everybody that we have three coequal branches of government. The president is trying to get our NATO allies to perform more strongly and have some level of independence, but the Congress has their back yeah.”