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.
If that’s the cost to get him out of the White House. I guess?!?!
It pales in comparison to what he has done to America already.
This man is rich and it is people that can not make ends meet this is a sad world we live in .and We The People let him do this.God help us.
Obama should be thinking about a place to hide!!!
Obama,…. Proof that with enough money, even a snake can reach the top of a mountain!
Damn thief, sorry being notice I did not say human
WHAT THE HELL CONGRESS HAS NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT A HUGE RAISE FOR THIS IDIOT?????????
Off taxpayer money
I think that has to be ok’d by congress. Just a formality with this corrupt bunch as they will include themselves.
Can’t happen that way. Has to go through senate.
DID NOT GIVE US A RAISE BUT HE TAKES ONE STUPID BASTARD