Fact-check: “The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined”
Verdict: Partly True (78% confidence)
Using SIPRI’s latest published country-by-country totals, the claim was narrowly true for calendar year 2024: the US ($997B) was slightly above the combined total of the next 10 spenders (about $984B). But SIPRI’s newer 2025 data shows the opposite: the US ($954B) was below the next 10 combined (about $1,119B), so the claim is not currently true on the most up-to-date annual data.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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