Eighty House Republicans vote to cut $482 million from NATO and put it into US military bases

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) offered the measure as an amendment to a war department appropriations bill. If passed, it would have shifted “$481,832,000 from the NATO Security Investment Program” to military construction projects at U.S. bases.

The NATO Security Investment Program is a pool of money that all 32 countries in the alliance contribute to, funding digital and infrastructure projects. The United States and Germany are the biggest contributors to the program.

“The U.S. keeps footing the bill for NATO while some of these countries refuse to fully back America when it actually matters,” Stuebe wrote in a post on X. “Taxpayers should not be subsidizing ‘allies’ who expect our protection but won’t show up for us.”

Steube’s amendment to include in the military appropriations bill was rejected by a 333-to-80 vote of the entire House.

The resounding opposition figure, however, obscures the GOP split on the issue. Overall, 127