{"id":8292,"date":"2026-07-06T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/trump-nato-turkey-spending\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:00:51","slug":"trump-nato-turkey-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/trump-nato-turkey-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump won spending promises from NATO last year. This week, he’ll try to enforce them : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the end of the NATO summit as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025.\n \n \n Alex Brandon\/AP\n \n <\/b>\n hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Alex Brandon\/AP\n \n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump got what he wanted from NATO at last year’s summit: an alliance whose members had largely acceded to his demands to step up their defense spending.<\/p>

This week when he meets leaders in Turkey, his mission is to enforce that pledge.<\/p>

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The speed with which most NATO countries have tried to heed Trump’s call to spend 5% of their annual gross domestic product on defense over the next decade underscores how the U.S. president has reshaped the alliance and bent it to his will \u2014 even as he continues to spar with its members over the Iran war, his flirtation with annexing Greenland, and various personal tiffs.<\/p>

“President Trump fully expects that all allies will step up immediately and get on the path to 5% and do it with urgency,” Matt Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, told reporters in a preview of the administration’s message before this week’s summit in Ankara.<\/p>