Bill > S985

This bill, the Allied Burden Sharing Report Act of 2019, requires the Department of Defense to submit annual reports to Congress on the defense spending and military activities of certain countries with cooperative defense agreements with the United States, including NATO member states, Gulf Cooperation Council member states, countries party to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty), and other specified countries. The report will cover whether these countries place limits on the use of funds contributed to the common defense and any U.S. actions to minimize such limitations. The bill aims to provide Congress with information to properly assess the readiness of the U.S. and its allies to address evolving threats, including near-peer threats beyond the global war on terror.