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.
BS
Next he will sign an order that a retiring president gets to keep air force one and it will fly at taxpayer expense. This guy is a fraud and needs to be impeached
Remove him from office and put him on trial for Bengaze
If we can’t get tax relief we take away that raise with a new Donald Trump For President
He has ZERO authority to do this, where is our Reps who control the purse strings!
It is not valid as he does not have the authority to do it!
Not only to mitchen. Us Soc Sec.didn’t get our caust of liveing.this year because of his f**e has prices .If he can do this .then when Trump gets in office maybe he will take it away from hem and even more.get out and vote for Trump .He wants no pay for the job.
HE MUST NEED A NEW DUE RAG FOR HIS DUE RAG BRAIN !!! AMERICIA WIL HUNT DOWN LIKE THE DOG YOU RELLY ARE !!! YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE OF THIS U.S.A. AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET THE EVIL YOU HV BROUGHT UPON THIS FALLEN NATION THAT YOU HATE !!! WE HATE YOU MORE THAN YOU HATE US !!!! ———-BEHEAD THIS TRADOR FOR OUR OWN SAFTY OF TIS COUNTRY !!!!
Lou Kilgore ////you are right and you will find out that the americans can be real tough and blood will flow
He can however increase amount needed for expenses, i.e. his and Michelle correspondence and other expenses required of retired President! He will use every trick possible and cheat to do it!