Fact-check: “The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined”
Verdict: Misleading (85% confidence)
The claim overstates the gap. SIPRI's most recent data (2025, published April 2026) puts U.S. defense spending at $954 billion, while the next 10 countries combined total roughly $1,167 billion — meaning the U.S. falls well short of that threshold. A narrower version of the claim has been true in some years: in 2024, the U.S. at $997 billion was larger than the next nine combined, and in 2020 SIPRI data supported a 'next 11' formulation. The 'next 10' version is a stricter bar that the current…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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