OPINION: Is Trump Considering New Priorities for American Involvement in NATO?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Sen. Chris Coons, of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Defense and a senior senator on the Foreign Relations panel, said Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, "gave very reassuring answers" on the administration's commitment to NATO and Article 5.
48% : The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the calling out of the childish behavior by Democrats in his speech Tuesday - there doesn't seem to be an applecart that the president isn't willing to tip over.
42% : But Trump has pushed to increase that percentage.
41% : British PM Starmer Vows to Put 'Boots on the Ground' in Ukraine WATCH: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Weighs In on Zelensky's Miscalculation of Trump It's difficult to see how favoring any NATO nation over another jibes with our treaty obligations.
41% : But on this specific report that President Trump may be considering this kind of calibration - well, I'll buy that when I see an announcement from a more official and less anonymous source.
30% : Not that I don't think President Trump may be thinking of altering our agreement with NATO - and not that I don't think that we should be taking a good hard look at NATO's continued relevance - but this report has me scratching my head.
26% : President Trump is re-writing all norms and shaking up The Swamp like we've never seen.
25% : President Trump has upset a lot of norms in his few weeks in office in this second term.
23% : Trump has discussed with aides the possibility of calibrating America's NATO engagement in a way that favors members of the alliance that spend a set percentage of their gross domestic product on defense, the officials said.
23% : Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO countries for not meeting the current NATO member goal of spending 2% of their GDP on defense.

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