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Report: Average working American spends a whole week preparing taxes
The effort and expense it takes to file taxes is staggering at 8.1 billion man hours totaling $170 billion in lost time or – what for the average working American amounts to a week of work preparing tax paper, according to a new Tax Day report. The Washington Examiner has the details: The report from…
Read MorePruitt ends taxpayer-paid gym memberships for EPA employees
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt this week on “Fox & Friends” announced his agency will no longer underwrite employee gym memberships – this after it came to light the agency under President Obama paid nearly $15,000 for 24-Hour Fitness membership packages. The Washington Examiner has the details: “Well, the gym memberships ended yesterday, it…
Read MoreSen. Ted Cruz: Repealing Obamacare is ‘a promise we can and will keep’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) echoed other tea-party lawmakers’ sentiment that members of the House Freedom Caucus and more mainstream Republicans like Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) will come to a compromise and finalize an Obamacare-repeal bill that will be able to pass in both chambers of Congress. WFAA8 ABC has the story: “We must repeal Obamacare,”…
Read MoreD.C. Veterans Affairs medical director fired after IG findings released
The D.C. VA medical director has been fired after an inspector-general report released Wednesday alleged facility employees were creating “unnecessary risk” for patients by not properly cleaning medical equipment. Stars & Stripes has the story: Quickly after the report came out, VA officials relieved the Washington hospital’s medical director and named an interim director, Charles…
Read MoreJenny Beth Martin: Spending bill should appease President Trump, NOT Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer
Senate Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer are putting up a fight when it comes to including financing for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border in the spending bill that needs to be voted on in the next two weeks if the government is going to keep operating, Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin says…
Read MoreTop Republicans calling on DOJ to reopen investigation into former IRS executive Lois Lerner
Two Republican congressmen are demanding authorities at the Department of Justice reopen the investigation into former IRS executive Lois Lerner, who oversaw IRS employees during the height of the scandal surrounding agency targeting of Americans for their political beliefs. The Washington Times has the details: Ms. Lerner was cleared after an investigation by the Obama…
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