NATO Burden Sharing Report Act

NATO Burden Sharing Report Act would require the Secretary of Defense to annually report to Congress on how allied countries contribute to the common defense. The report would cover NATO members and those in NATO’s Membership Action Plan, focusing on each country’s defense spending, contributions to operations, and any limits on how those contributions can be used. It would also require detailed country-by-country information on Ukraine-related support, the health and strengths of each country’s defense industrial base, military force structure and mobilization time, and related defense spending trends. Reports would be due by March 1 each year, prepared in coordination with other federal agencies, in an unclassified format with an optional classified annex, and would be accessible to Members of Congress. The bill frames these reports as part of a broader sense that the United States should not bear an outsized burden for European security and that allies should meet defense spending guidelines and contribute to international security responsibilities.