{"id":112753,"date":"2020-06-08T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/08\/plans-to-pull-american-troops-from-germany-worries-us-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:41:56","slug":"plans-to-pull-american-troops-from-germany-worries-us-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/08\/plans-to-pull-american-troops-from-germany-worries-us-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to pull American troops from Germany worries US lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key House ally of President Donald Trump and other congressional lawmakers criticized reported White House plans to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/06\/07\/german-lawmakers-criticize-reported-american-troop-withdrawal-plan\/\" target=_blank> withdraw thousands of U.S. service members from Germany<\/a>, calling it a short-sighted decision which will hurt military readiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a dangerously misguided policy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney\/status\/1269271578052788224\" target=_blank>Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo<\/a>., and third-ranking Republican in the House, said in a statement over the weekend. \u201cIf the United States abandons allies, withdraws our forces and retreats within our borders, the cause of freedom \u2014 on which our nation was founded &amp; our security depends \u2014 will be in peril.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-directs-u-s-troop-reduction-in-germany-11591375651?mod=hp_lead_pos3\" target=_blank>the Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported that the U.S. military will reduce its footprint in Germany by nearly one-third after Trump ordered a dramatic drawdown in force levels from the key NATO ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/05\/trump-orders-massive-cut-to-us-troop-numbers-in-germany-report\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19311266835271.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump orders massive cut to US troop numbers in Germany: report<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Wall Street Journal reported that troop levels would drop by 9,500 servicemembers under the plan.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under a memorandum signed White House National Security Adviser Robert O\u2019Brien (signed in recent days but not yet made public), U.S. troop presence in Germany would drop by 9,500 service members, from 34,500 today to about 25,000. The administration will also cap the number of total troops in the country at 25,000, creating a potential logistics problem as various military assets move through the country to other overseas deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials from the White House have not publicly confirmed the plans. Officials from U.S. European Command and the Pentagon would not provide any comment on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the lack of detail, the moves drew considerable concern from Congress, where lawmakers for recent years have pushed back against Trump\u2019s assertions that the United States subsidizes too much of foreign allies\u2019 national defense responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019d all like to see our allies make larger investments to support our collective defense. But this is not the way to do that,\u201d wrote Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and a Marine Corps veteran who serve in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallagher called U.S. forces in Germany \u201ca critical lynchpin\u201d of global military strategy. He also tied the news to this weekend\u2019s 76th anniversary of D-Day, saying that World War II showed the importance of having forward-deployed U.S. defense forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Jack Reed, D-R.I., went even further with his criticism of the proposed drawdowns, calling them \u201cpetty and preposterous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s another favor to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and another leadership failure by this administration that further strains relations with our allies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/06\/07\/german-lawmakers-criticize-reported-american-troop-withdrawal-plan\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4114350.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">German lawmakers criticize reported American troop withdrawal plan<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Two conservative German lawmakers have criticized the reported U.S. decision to withdraw more than a quarter of American troops stationed in Germany.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the move was not universally opposed by Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, a staunch supporter of Trump, applauded the move on social media this weekend, saying that \u201cour allies must continue to do more to increase their defense spending commitments and rely less on U.S. military personnel for their national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No timeline has been announced for the start of the drawdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reaction to the U.S. plan from German leaders has been mixed thus far, with some calling it a new challenge for the security relationship between the two countries and other praising it as an overdue reduction on the American military presence there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cutting our forces in Germany not only reduces our forward presence and our ability to deter aggression in Europe, but it will end up costing us more. 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