The US spent $686 billion on defense last year — here’s how the other NATO countries stack up
The world’s most powerful military alliance will convene in Brussels next week – and President Donald Trump will be pushing the 28 other NATO members to spend more money.
“I’m going to tell NATO, ‘You gotta start paying your bills. The United States is not going to take care of everything,’ ” Trump said Thursday during a rally in Great Falls, Montana.
In 2017, the U.S. accounted for 51.1 percent of NATO’s combined GDP and 71.7 percent of its combined defense expenditure. In short, the U.S. contributed more funds to NATO than Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Canada combined.
