Five By Five Q&A: Diem Nguyen Salmon on the Defense Budget

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Five By Five Q&A: Diem Nguyen Salmon on the Defense Budget  By Tim Starks Last week, the conservative Heritage Foundation released its own proposal for the fiscal 2016 defense budget: to increase the total to $584 billion, very close to what President Obama himself proposed Monday. But the Heritage report went beyond just the total dollar amount. Full story Congress Reacts to Obama Pentagon Budget Proposal  By Tim Starks On the House Armed Services Committee, panel leaders looking at President Obama's fiscal 2016 Pentagon budget proposal took aim at the sequester, with different fingers to point. On other committees with oversight of the defense budget, lawmakers found other things to flag in the budget plan released Monday. Full story 'Daily Show' Takes on Afghanistan Classification Scandal That Wasn't