claim: since 2014, "each year, (nato) nations have been increasing their contributions."
author: john kerry
evidence_1: may 26, 2017 ... mr. trump has a point, but he mischaracterizes the way it works. ... none of the  nato allies are in arrears on these contributions. ... to spend at least 2 percent of  its gross domestic product on its own defense each year. ... in 2006, even as the  united states was increasing military spending because of the ...
evidence_2: mar 15, 2018 ... after a lengthy trend downward in defense spending, there has been ... at the  2014 summit in wales, nato signed up to a 'defence ... years has been one of  increased defence spending,” said the report, unveiled at nato's brussels hq. ...  this year, eight allies are expected to meet the 2 percent guideline.
evidence_3: jul 17, 2018 ... north atlantic treaty organization members have not agreed to give the alliance  ... rather, each nato member pledged in 2014 to spend 2 percent of its gross ...  “president trump has been outspoken on this issue, and i thanked him ... “the  upswing in nato defense spending over the past year and a half ...
evidence_4: jul 12, 2018 ... nato member nations committed in 2014 to each spend 2 percent of ... in fact,  u.s. allies plan to increase spending by $11 billion this year. he also said,  inaccurately, that nato nations had been decreasing their spending until he was  ... to contribute more to their defenses and relying too heavily on the ...
evidence_5: jul 9, 2018 ... in reality, the u.s. share of the commonly funded nato budget is currently ...  trump's most recent criticism of nato came in a series of morning tweets on ...  while these countries have been increasing their contributions since i took office,  ... in 2014, they agreed again to aim to meet that standard by 2024.