US and NATO discuss boosting defense spending.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pit Hegset and NATO Secretary General Mark Rute discussed the need to increase defense spending in NATO member countries, as well as strengthening the alliance, the Pentagon reported. They discussed expanding the capacity of the defense industrial base on both sides of the Atlantic. U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would ask NATO members to increase defense spending to five percent of GDP, a target that no member has yet reached. European defense ministers believe that this goal is