President Donald Trump’s reported intent to charge NATO countries a huge premium for hosting U.S. military bases would be “devastating,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., chair of the House GOP Conference said Sunday.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Cheney was adamant that charging our allies “rent” would be dangerous.
According to Bloomberg News the administration is drawing up demands that Germany, Japan and eventually any other country hosting U.S. troops pay the full price of American soldiers deployed there — plus 50 percent or more for hosting them.
“I think it would be absolutely devastating,” Cheney said of such a move — and declared “I won’t” support Trump on it.
“I think it's going to be very important for us to make sure that people understand the danger that will do to our relationships and to our fundamental security,” she said. “Our security, we've been able to protect it because of our alliances and because we have been able to work with countries. We should not look at this that we need to charge them rent for the privilege of having our forces there because that does us a huge benefit, as well.”
Cheney also elaborated on why last week she voted against a House resolution condemning hate, lamenting that House Democrats are “protecting” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who has lashed out at pro-Israel lobbyists and supports in terms condemned as anti-Semitic.
“I decided to vote against it because I think it was an effort to protect Omar, by refusing to name her,” Cheney said. “The Democrats have yet to take any action to remove her from her committee. And they have a real problem. The extent to which they are abiding by anti-semitism, enabling anti-semitism in their party is something they struggle with. I hope they will be able to stand up and do the right thing.”
Cheney said Omar should be stripped of her foreign affairs committee assignment.
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