The Libertarian National Committee failed to adopt a revised foreign policy resolution calling for expanded enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and U.S. withdrawal from NATO, with the measure falling short of the three-fourths threshold required for passage.
Voting on the resolution closed April 19, with LNC Secretary Evan McMahon publishing the results to the public Business List this Wednesday. Nine members voted in favor of the measure and six opposed. The remaining two members did not vote.
The measure was introduced earlier this month as a revised version of a proposal first brought forward in late March that failed by a 4–9 vote. That earlier version heavily focused on pro-Israel advocacy organizations, explicitly naming several groups and calling on the Department of Justice to require them to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Several members raised objections to the original language, arguing that it singled out groups associated with Israel too heavily while also raising concerns about how the law would be applied and whether the committee should be invoking it at all.
Following that vote, LNC Chair Steven Nekhaila worked with Region 1 alternate Bryce Thon to produce a version of the resolution intended to appeal more broadly to the committee. The revised proposal removed references to specific organizations and instead addressed foreign influence and military commitments more generally.
The updated resolution called for ending all forms of foreign aid without exception, withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, opposing future security guarantees that could draw the United States into conflicts with major powers such as Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, and restoring Congress’s exclusive authority to declare war.
It also called for expanded enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, directing the Department of Justice to apply the law “equally and without exception” to all foreign agents, along with new disclosure requirements covering foreign-linked funding. Unlike the earlier version, the revised proposal moved away from its Israel-specific focus and instead referenced multiple countries and active geopolitical flashpoints that it warned could escalate into nuclear war.
Despite those changes, the measure did not reach the threshold required for adoption. Under party rules, resolutions require support from three-fourths of the national committee, which in this case would have been 13 votes.
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