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Hakeem Jeffries: “Withdrawing from NATO would be a reckless choice.”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

'No circumstance where US ground troops' should be sent to Middle East: Jeffries

Published April 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:08

Are you confident that Congress can keep the United States in NATO? Certainly. I hope that there will be a bipartisan effort to convince this administration that Withdrawing from NATO would be a reckless choice. This is a dangerous world. We need more friends, not more adversaries. And we should not walk away from an alliance that has actually kept the world and the United States as safe as possible in the aftermath of World War II. (04:08–04:12)

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