By Upward News | Created at 2025-03-29 11:14:31 | Updated at 2025-04-02 20:07:54
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_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
This week’s leaked Signal chats revealed that top Trump administration figures say the same things about Europe privately that they are saying publicly: they’ve had enough of Europe taking advantage of the USA. Vice President JD Vance said he loathed the idea of “bailing out Europe again,” a phrase with which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth agreed, writing, “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's pathetic."
Europeans, who mostly do not see themselves as freeloaders, have been slow to grasp how angry the Trump administration is becoming with their lack of defense spending, and as a result, have been slow to make the necessary reforms to take on the extra cost.
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