{"id":70694,"date":"2026-04-02T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/republican-senators-break-with-trump-on-nato-withdrawal-as-tensions-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:04:36","slug":"republican-senators-break-with-trump-on-nato-withdrawal-as-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/republican-senators-break-with-trump-on-nato-withdrawal-as-tensions-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican senators break with Trump on Nato withdrawal as tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Tillis joins McConnell in warning withdrawal would aid rivals and threaten US security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-white-house-ballroom-republicans-dhs-funding-deal-tariffs-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A second Republican senator spoke out in defense of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nato\">Nato<\/a> on Thursday, joining Mitch McConnell and the<strong> <\/strong>Democrats, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> said that he was \u201cabsolutely\u201d considering withdrawing from the alliance after it refused to take part in the joint assault with Israel against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNato stood by America when we were under attack and came to our aid after the September 11th attacks. Their soldiers fought and died alongside our troops in Afghanistan,\u201d said Thom Tillis, a Republican, and Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, who co-chair the Senate Nato observer group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/republicans-trump-leave-nato\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Tillis joins McConnell in warning withdrawal would aid rivals and threaten US security US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A second Republican senator spoke out in defense of Nato on Thursday, joining Mitch McConnell and the Democrats, after Donald Trump said that he was \u201cabsolutely\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"Republican senators break with Trump on Nato withdrawal as tensions rise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/republican-senators-break-with-trump-on-nato-withdrawal-as-tensions-rise\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican senators break with Trump on Nato withdrawal as tensions rise\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}