President Obama has gotten used to living high on the hog, at the taxpayer’s expense and doesn’t want to stop his lavish lifestyle after he leaves the White House. He sought to increase the amount of money available for the federal government to spend on former presidents in advance of his White House exit.
In the 2016 and 2017 fiscal year budget requests, Obama put forward increases in appropriation expenditures of former Presidents. Specifically, the 2017 budget proposal is almost an 18 percent increase in appropriations for former Presidents and he had success in an increase in 2016.
Obama will be a former President, so his budgeting is not about his concern for Presidents Bush and Clinton, but rather an opportunistic plan to increase his pension after he is no longer in Washington DC.
So many Presidents go on to make profitable lives after the White House, writing books, speaking engagements that there does not seem to be a need for tax payers to subsidize former Presidents, if their own wealth is substantial enough to support them for the remainder of their days.
Read how Obama’s self-given pay raise clashes with conservative thought regarding The Former Presidents Act, on page two.
This is wrong
If he gets a prison sentence from Trump then he won’t get any money.
The fact that he hasn’t.been impeached shows how much the.government cares. About its citizens. We’re all fucked
how can he eve do that with out congress or senate giving the go ahead crazy.
We need to elect some who will take it back and cut his retirement pay down 15/16’s. And get rid of obama care, and he and his family will be the only one’s to keep it!!
Wrong again.
Katie Maguire, ,, your an idiot
Wait till Trumps in office and obumma has to pay this back from his jail cell!
Scumbag
He already has a mansion in Dubai waiting for him after he skips the country, courtesy of George Soros…