Since his first administration, President Donald Trump has stressed the need for U.S. allies to take on more of the burden to offset what he has said are decades of them taking advantage of the United States.

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday pushed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to agree to a deal on increasing military spending that could satisfy President Donald Trump at a summit this month.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Europe this week to meet with his NATO counterparts and participate in the annual commemoration of the D-Day assault critical to the Allied victory in World War II.