While there are a lot of these "messaging bills" that do serve purely political purposes - see https://rollcall.com/2024/07/25/messaging-bills-are-loud-but-do-v

While there are a lot of these "messaging bills" that do serve purely political purposes - see https://rollcall.com/2024/07/25/messaging-bills-are-loud-but-do-voters-hear-them/ https://rollcall.com/2024/07/25/messaging-bills-are-loud-but... for a somewhat informal discussion of their modern use - there are many historical examples of Congress using its Article I "power of the purse" to limit the executive branch's ability to fund military operations in foreign countries: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:U.S._congressional_opposition_to_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:U.S._congressional_op... for a number of examples. To my knowledge, at no time since the founding of NATO has any member of Congress considered such a bill necessary to protect other NATO members from the U.S. executive branch's own aggressions. But these are the times we live in.