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04/11/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Airport security held hostage by alt-energy advocates

(BigGovernment.news) Just two weeks after the deadly terrorist bombings in Brussels, a seemingly non-controversial bill that could substantially increase security at U.S. airports is becoming bogged down in election-year inertia on Capitol Hill. The Senate is stuck in high-level, last-minute negotiations to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration – usually a fairly routine measure, but still subject […]

04/08/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Va. Gov. McAuliffe vetoes bill that would have required schools to notify parents when sexually explicit materials were being taught

(BigGovernment.news) Looks like Left-wing Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia is siding with secretive perversion over parental rights after vetoing a bill that would have required schools to notify parents when they are being presented sexually explicit materials. It’s no wonder more and more Americans have had it with the ruling class. As reported by AMI Newswire, […]

04/07/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

California Democrats just made it harder for poor people to earn a living

(BigGovernment.news) With great fanfare, California Democrats celebrated when Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a new measure requiring businesses to pay all employees a minimum of $15 an hour over the next six years. Rather than celebrating, every elected official who voted for it owes every business owner in the state an apology, though it […]

04/06/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Obama continues to push $66 billion for preschool, despite concerns

(BigGovernment.news) A proposal for universal preschool in President Barack Obama’s final budget would add $66 billion to federal spending over the next decade, despite recent findings in Tennessee that show such programs have minimal impact on achievement. This is the third year the Obama administration has pushed Congress for an expanded federal-state partnership for school […]

04/05/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

CBO: Obama wage insurance carries $27 billion price tag

(BigGovernment.news) A proposed program that would subsidize displaced workers who take a lower-paying job will cost $27 billion over the next 10 years, according to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In a release, the Obama administration described the program, commonly called “wage insurance,” as a means to help displaced workers transition […]

04/04/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Thousands of veterans denied access to care following discharge

(BigGovernment.news) Thousands of veterans, including former frontline combat soldiers and those suffering from mental health problems, are being denied medical treatment and other services because they received less than honorable discharges, a new report released Wednesday reveals. Veterans who served from 2001 were nearly twice as likely as those who served during Vietnam to be barred […]

04/01/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

U.S. senators to DHS: Why was an illegal alien charged with homicide released?

(BigGovernment.news) The Obama administration’s refusal to uphold U.S. immigration law is literally leading to the deaths of American citizens, while the refusal of members of both parties in Congress to hold the president and his Department of Homeland Security chief, Jeh Johnson, accountable for their criminal lapses is despicable. In recent days senators from Iowa and Nebraska sent a letter to Immigration and Customs […]

03/31/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

The Obamacare fail is so steep even Uncle Sam’s budget master has no idea how bad it will get

(BigGovernment.news) Just when it looks as though the epic failure of Obamacare cannot get any worse for beleaguered taxpayers who are forced to pick up the ever-growing tab, it does. Now, apparently, the cost of the law is getting so hard to estimate that the Congressional Budget Office is simply going to give up trying. As reported […]

03/30/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Business group hardens Republican stance against Supreme Court nomination

(BigGovernment.news) A small business group, stepping into the debate over the Supreme Court nominee for the first time in its history, has emerged as the major roadblock to the confirmation of Merrick Garland while Republicans control the Senate. The National Federation of Independent Business’s withering analysis of Garland’s record helped move the position of some […]

03/29/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Rand Paul announces big government waste ‘bracket’ winners

(BigGovernment.news) After a bracket-style competition, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) says $50,000 spent by the federal government helping deported Salvadorans start businesses was the “champion” of a contest on ill-spent federal dollars for 2015. The program, a grant from the Inter-American Foundation to the non-profit Insituto Salvadorno Del Migrante, or Institute for Salvadoran Migrants, specifically targets illegal […]

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