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.
Congress had better start doing their$#%&!@*in job.Impeach this.Traitor
BS HE DOES NOT DESERVE ANYTHING , CONGRESS NEEDS TO WAKE UP N DEFUND HIM NOW , HES STEALING MORE AMERICAS MONEY FOR HIMSELF BUT NO MONEY TO CARE FOR VETS N SENIORS,PRETTY SICK
NO
Steal with the stroke of a pen.
Slum bug
Let me see if I get this right you give yourself a huge raise and there is no money ton give us people trying ton live on our ss money this is wrong you are just no dam good ………………..
POS
Hell no
Can he do this without congressional approval? Course those morons would approve it like they have approved all of the other useless expenditures that have driven the US to the brink of bankruptcy!!!!! What a bunch of absolute morons!!!!!!!
e knows we have no govt to stop him.