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Report: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to deport nearly 20,000 criminal illegal immigrants
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in 2015 declined to deport almost 20,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions – more than 200 of whom were convicted of murder; more than 900 of sex crimes and more than 12,000 of drunken driving, according to a government report. The Washington Examiner has the story: Overall, those released into…
Read MoreHealth-insurance prices expected to surge
Expect Obamacare health-insurance premiums to spike in the coming months as insurers like UnitedHealthcare exit the Obamacare marketplace. The Hill has the story: Many insurers have been losing money on the ObamaCare marketplaces, in part because they set their premiums too low when the plans started in 2014. The companies are now expected to seek…
Read MoreHouse Ways and Means Chairman: We plan to lay out ‘comprehensive blueprint on where we want the tax code to go’
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady during The Atlantic Summit Wednesday told Bloomberg View columnist Margaret Carlson that his committee is exploring numerous pro-growth tax plans to roll out by the close of 2016. The Daily Caller has the scoop: “What we expect to do is to lay out, later this summer, a…
Read MoreTax expert: President Obama’s IRS commissioner awarded disgraced IRS exec Lois Lerner thousands in bonuses
Tax expert Robert W. Wood writing for Forbes says disgraced former high-level IRS executive Lois Lerner received thousands of dollars in bonuses in addition to her salary and that the bonuses began thanks to President Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who repeatedly has stonewalled congressional investigation into agency targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.…
Read MoreHillary Clinton’s aide to be grilled over Clinton emails
Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers at the State Department, will be questioned under oath about then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to transmit confidential state secrets. New York Post has the details: The agreement filed late Friday with the U.S. District Court in Washington comes after a…
Read MoreSen. Reid dubbed ‘Porker of the Month’ for stonewalling IGs looking into fraud, abuse
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) received the March Porker of the Month award from D.C.-based government watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste for supporting a bill that would stonewall inspectors general from looking into waste, fraud and government mismanagement. The Review Journal has the details: “Sen. Reid’s unfathomable objection to this measure exemplifies his utter and complete…
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