By Siobhan Hughes
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) said there was little appetite among Senate Republicans to pull the U.S. out of NATO, as President Trump has suggested. "We got an awful lot of people who think that NATO is a very critical, incredibly successful post-World War II alliance. And I think in the world today, you need allies," Thune told reporters.
Trump has raised with his advisers the possibility of withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if allies don't help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials said, as growing tensions with Europeans threaten the alliance that has been the foundation of the post-World War II order.
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