Dick Lugar: “The United States national debt has risen above $15 trillion, posing extreme economic risk for our country.”

Congress could condition funding to develop new missiles on receipt from the administration of a comprehensive military, economic, and diplomatic strategy to bring Russia back into compliance with the treaty.

The President has to want to get back into the discussions. At this point, there is not evidence that that is the case.

Congress has the ability to press the administration on its strategy to prevent a new Euro-missile race and increased instability in the absence of the INF Treaty.

There is precedent for using patient diplomacy to resolve treaty violations.