Joe Biden: “The cost of $250 billion for expansion of NATO is bizarre, in my humble opinion. I will lay it out in detail why it is…”

“The cost of $250 billion for expansion of NATO is bizarre, in my humble opinion. I will lay it out in detail why it is tomorrow. All of NATO combined, including our national budget now, doesn't cost but half that, less than half of that. How adding three nations would more than increase over 200 percent over the cost...but essentially increase by 50 percent the costs of NATO is beyond me. I think it may be orderly and useful to our colleagues and to the public if those of us who...have spent a lot of time researching the detail related to the cost in trying to decipher and explain the reasons for the inconsistent numbers. The inconsistent numbers relate to what we talk about as the unified budget, the national budget, and so on, what we allocate as part of our--for example, we spend a lot of money, $300 billion a year, roughly, for defense. Is that all accountable to NATO? Do we say that the United States is spending $300 billion a year on NATO?”