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Get the latest news on President Donald Trump's second term in the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
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At the NATO summit in the Hague, almost all European nations reached an agreement to raise military spending to 5% of each county's GDP. This comes as President Trump said the U.S. would not come to the defense of other NATO nations unless they hit 5% in military spending. "Trump wants to move towards a much, much more instrumental and crudely material, transactional politics," says Richard Seymour, writer, broadcaster and activist. "I think this is a version of imperial decline that Trump is trying to manage."
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President Trump has pressed allies to spend more on defense. Leaders agreed that "allies" — but not "all allies" — would meet the objective.
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