February 2 – Obama Urges Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids; The President’s Four Trillion Dollar Budget; After Five Years of Cuts, an Increased Defense Budget | Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Then finally, we look into the president’s $585 billion 2016 budget for the Pentagon that reverses a five year drop in military spending. Mandy Smithberger, Director of the Strauss Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight joins us to discuss the extra $11 billion for the overpriced and under-performing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter while the Air Force continues to try to kill the A-10 which is popular with the troops in order to find another $3.5 billion for the problem-plagued F-35 program, and the extra $821 million for 29 MQ-9 Reaper drones.

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