Is U.S. Government Ignoring Major Issues in U.S. of today?

One of the implications from news-media coverage of the U.S. Government is that we have a federal government devoting 60 percent of its attention toward the Middle East.
As for the remaining 40 percent of the federal government's cited range of interests, according to news media accounts, they almost never or only rarely include, for instance:

(1) containment of urban sprawl throughout the United States, urban sprawl being inextricably linked to wastage of fossil fuels; unsightly urban development; nnihilation of a sense of rational community that derives from a city being pedestrian-friendly; global deforestation; and the Global Warming Effect environmental crisis.
I myself have never once heard about a White House Conference on Urban Sprawl Containment or U.S. Senate Hearings on Urban Sprawl Deterrence.

(2) development of plans for a nationwide and comprehensive recycling program emphasizing curbside pick-up service on all applicable recyclable items for each and every household and business and employer anywhere in the United States.

(3) plans for strengthening a nationwide network of successful drug-treatment, alcohol-treatment, and tobacco-treatment programs, the goal being to help each and every American citizen with an addiction to drugs, alcohol, or tobacco products, who wishes to be cured of any of those vile addictions.

(4) nationwide plans for significantly reducing the nationwide recividivism rate among all individuals who have been convicted of a felony crime anywhere in the United States.

(5) development of nationwide strategies for prevention or deterrence of pederastic crimes, or sex crimes that victimize persons legally classified as minors.

(5) development of a nationwide strategy for promoting the use of consistently civil conduct and clean speech on a daily basis by as many Americans as possible.