US Dept of Defense funding to increase under Obama’s 2011 budget

Today FSRN continues our analysis of President Obama's budget by taking a look at one of the few areas that is receiving an increase in funding: the defense department. This week Defense Secretary Robert Gates made the case for the 708 billion dollar budget saying that the military must "prepare for a much broader range of security challenges on the horizon." To see where the money is going, we're joined by Chris Hellman, Director of Research at the National Priorities Project, a not-for-profit organization that analyzes federal spending data.

Publications and reports on the budget at the National Priorities Project: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/publications