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.
while the rest of us is struggling dumb$#%&!@*is taking a raise
Has to pass congress first.
Omooslum CAN NOT give himself a fat pay raise……. WELL, MAYBE he did with THE congress “We The People” have……Usually The House PAYS THE BILLS.
He does need the money
It’s a PROPOSAL that has to be confirmed. Ya’ll (Truth and Action) need to stop over dramatizing topics as if it’s a done deal.
you should be paid by what you have done , so you owe the American people 100 billion dollars
That’s a traitor.
Boy
Oh boy that pisses me off to!
Nothing for vets or seniors, $4bill for Isis, $1.12 for cuba, but monkey boy wants a raise. How bout I raise my foot up and break it off in your$#%&!@*