{"id":2269982,"date":"2024-06-17T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-nato-chief-mark-record-member-gdp-defense-commitments\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:53:48","slug":"biden-and-nato-chief-mark-record-member-gdp-defense-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-nato-chief-mark-record-member-gdp-defense-commitments\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden and NATO leader highlight unprecedented defense spending commitments by member nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-and-nato-chief-mark-record-member-gdp-defense-commitments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2269982&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President \u200bJoe Biden and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg highlighted that\u200c a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">record number<\/a> of NATO members are now meeting the organization&#8217;s defense spending goals, addressing an issue emphasized by former President Donald Trump. During a meeting at the \u2064White House, Biden\u2063 announced that since he took office, the number of allies\u2062 spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense has more than doubled. \u2063Stoltenberg, set to retire in October, noted that 23 out of\u200d 32\u2064 NATO members \u200chave reached this benchmark, contributing to an 18% collective increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-calls-trudeau-canada-a-military-free-rider-over-nato-commitment\/\" title=\"GOP Senator criticizes Canada's NATO commitment, labels Trudeau a military 'free-rider'.\">defense\u2062 spending<\/a> across the alliance\u200b over the past year, marking the most significant rise in decades.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>NATO<\/a> Secretary-General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jens-stoltenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jens Stoltenberg<\/a> underscored that a record number of members are now pulling their defense spending weight, a key matter former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> had with the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very important announcement to make today: A record number of allies are meeting NATO\u2019s commitment to [spend] at least 2% of their [gross domestic product] on defense,\u201d Biden told reporters Monday at the start of his meeting with Stoltenberg at the White House. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, the number has more than doubled since we took office, since I took office, and we look forward to building on all of this progress next month when we have our 75th meeting here in Washington,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister who will step down from the NATO post he has held since 2017 in October, similarly emphasized that 23 of NATO\u2019s 32 members had increased their defense spending to 2% of GDP, representing a collective increase of 18% across the alliance during the past year alone. That is the largest increase in \u201cdecades,\u201d according to Stoltenberg.<\/p>\n<p>It \u201cdemonstrates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>European<\/a> allies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Canada<\/a> are really stepping up, and taking their share of the common responsibility to protect all of us in the NATO alliance,\u201d Stoltenberg said in the Oval Office. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect that when we meet next month, we will agree to have a NATO role in providing security assistance and training and agree to step up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-corporations-consider-blocking-monetary-support-to-gop\/\" title=\"U.S. corporations consider blocking monetary support to GOP\">financial support<\/a> to Ukraine,\u201d he added. \u201cThis will reduce the burden on the United States and strengthen our support to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement precedes next month\u2019s NATO summit in Washington, D.C., and the potential return of Trump to the White House. Trump criticized NATO as a 2016 presidential candidate and when he was commander in chief, complaining that the United States has disproportionate spending responsibilities compared to the rest of the alliance. Since his return to the 2024 campaign trail, he has promised to continue supporting NATO as long as other members \u201cplay fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a separate engagement at the Wilson Center earlier Monday, Stoltenberg declined to speculate with reporters when all 32 NATO members would reach the GDP defense spending target, a 10-year goal that was a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Russia<\/a>\u2018s 2014 annexation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crimea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Crimea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very encouraged by what we\u2019ve seen,\u201d Stoltenberg said. \u201cAlso a significant increase across the alliance and not only do more and more allies spend 2%, but more and more allies actually spend more than 2%.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that a record number of members are now meeting their defense spending commitments. 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