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Despite the 2014 agreement, on Wednesday, the Trump administration abruptly requested that NATO member nations double their defense spending target from the current 2 to 4 percent (of GDP).

Later during his news conference, Trump indicated he hopes NATO members will use their increased military expenditures to buy American equipment, which he described as “so much better than anybody else’s.”

...Trump’s claim about the United States paying “probably 90 percent of the cost of NATO” is egregiously false. The United States, which spends more than twice as much on defense as the second biggest-spending country in the world (China), currently covers about 22 percent of the cost of NATO.