Findings and sense of Congress

(a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Government of the Russian Federation continues to pose a long-term threat to Euro-Atlantic security, as reaffirmed by allies in the Hague Summit Declaration issued on June 25, 2025. (2) Under that Declaration, allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization committed to invest five percent of gross domestic product annually on core defense requirements and on defense- and security-related spending by 2035, of which up to 1.5 percent is to be accounted for to protect critical infrastructure, defend networks, ensure civil preparedness and resilience, unleash innovation, and strengthen the defense industrial base. (3) The Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, has identified military mobility, host-nation infrastructure, and theater-wide resilience as essential to executing the Alliance’s new family of regional defense plans approved at the 2023 Vilnius Summit. (4) Allies located on the Eastern Frontier of the Alliance bear disproportionate first-responder responsibilities under those plans and require infrastructure that can sustain large-scale reinforcement, sustainment, and combat operations in the event of conflict with the Russian Federation. Gaps in transportation, energy, communications, and financial infrastructure along the Eastern Frontier directly affect the ability of the United States Armed Forces and the forces of other allies to deter aggression and, if necessary, to defend allied territory. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the United States has a vital national security interest in the timely and verifiable integration of the infrastructure of Eastern Frontier allies with the requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.