Angela Merkel is favorite to win her fourth term as German chancellor | Sean Gallup/Getty Images | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany didn’t receive NATO invoice from Trump: government There is no ‘debt account at NATO,’ says German government spokesman.

A spokesman for the German government on Monday denied media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump handed a multibillion-euro invoice to Chancellor Angela Merkel when they met in Washington earlier this month.

"Reports that President Trump had presented the federal chancellor with a kind of bill with a concrete billion sum are not true," spokesman Steffen Seibert said at a press conference.

According to a report in the Sunday Times, Trump handed Merkel a bill of more than $300 billion for money Germany supposedly owed to NATO. The gesture was “outrageous,” the paper quoted an unnamed German minister as saying.

After his meeting with Merkel in mid-March, Trump said on Twitter that Germany owed "vast sums of money" to NATO and the U.S. and it "must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"

Seibert said Merkel and Trump had discussed defense expenditure during their meeting, but there was no "debt account at NATO."

All NATO members are urged to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. Germany is increasing military spending, but its contribution is still seen falling well short of the 2 percent goal this year.