Washington, April 16 -- US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce rejected reports that claimed that the Trump administration is seeking to reduce US funding for the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO).

While addressing a press briefing on Tuesday (local time), Bruce said that the US remains committed to NATO and is trying to make the military alliance deterrent, not to help with wars, fight them, or fund them. She stated that NATO was meant to be a collection of entities that would stop bad actors from doing bad things.

When asked whether the Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for UN and NATO, Bruce responded, "That's again, that's from a story that is looking at a memo that was leaked or not from a plan that ...