While President Obama and the Democrat-run US Congress spend trillions of dollars, Secretary Robert Gates and Obama's Administration have requested a drawdown of 32 percent in the 2010 fiscal year budget for the long-range ballistic missile defense system -- a specific reduction from 44 ground based interceptors to 30 ground based interceptors -- to protect the United States of America from long range ballistic missiles, according to Riki Ellison, the Chairman and Founder of Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a non-profit national security think tank.