“In 2020, nine NATO members reached an alliance goal of spending at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense, and that number rose to 23 members in 2024, recent NATO data shows.”
What PolitiFact found
In 2020, nine NATO members reached an alliance goal of spending at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense, and that number rose to 23 members in 2024, recent NATO data shows.
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Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 9 July 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 July 2024, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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