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 can’t do that. All spending originates in the House of Representatives.
One looks at this jerk tells you he was America’s worst mistake-set this country back in too many ways to list-least transparent and most crooked administration in the history of this country-created intensified racism,etc-GIVE HIM ZERO presidential PENSION-he has never worked for a living, it is time for him to find out what it is like
btw hillery clinton basically owns wallmart better learn to get off the titty
I’d say no pay or bennies!
I would love for you to list them and cite sources
That should not have happened when he first ran for office; now it’s almost eight years later! And now, Cruz who should not be eligible (don’t care what courts rule) because he was born in Canada and only gave up Canadian citizenship 22 months before running for Senate is on campaign trail!
impeach obummer
He needs the excess pay hike and lifetime Secret Service because he was buying a mansion in Dubai, UAE. He will need a lifetime secret service there once he and his family moved in..
Unfortunately, don’t think he would be welcome in TX.
Well to all that voted for him thinking he was the Messiah and was going to be the Savior of America and the good honest politicians– law makers– military that is allowing this to happen for the people can only stop it by putting someone else in office or a overthrow– politicians from both parties are c**p so we replace one with another– so who says we aren’t screwed.