One of the major problems with the massive “must-pass” bills that manage to make it through Congress every year is the penchant of members to sneak in any number of odious provisions that would never have passed on their own. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a prime example, and it just passed with plenty of badness snuck into the more than 4,000 pages it contained, most of which none of the members ever read. One of these toxic nuggets was a provision that would make it almost impossible for the President to withdraw the United States from NATO without specific congressional approval. This was a bipartisan move that was obviously designed to prevent Donald Trump from pulling the country out of the organization as he has previously threatened to do. (Political Wire)
“Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the…
