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.
He needs to be in prison.
Not sure if this bill can be amended// If so, he will be out of luck. Our next President of the US will do that his Second day in office///
obama has done nothing but steal from us since he has been in office… Who decided to let a thief watch the money?
piece of c**p HELLO why did you not give Social Security a raise this year? Or the Veteran’s glad you can give yourself a big fat pay raise on the backs of hardly working Americans who you have not really done a damn thing for….. you are a liar, and a thief and as an American I say NO you can not have a pay raise in fact YOU ARE FIRED!!!!!!!
No dice, you can’t give yourself a raise. We vote on that
he can’t give himself a raise , he can wish buy will not get
The old man and greed he doesn’t even deserve the money to get in now are you going to get himself ready to come on
This is the old government in greed that hair what are you
WTF?
go trump. he the man