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.
that has tog o through congress before he can give anyone a raise. CONGRESS HAS THE FINAL SAY SO ON THAT. NO WAY WILL THEY GIVE HIM A RAISE.
Evil
He needs to pay the American people reparations
He cannot get a raise on his own, besides there was no COLA raise for the real people.
the scum bag does not deserve a raise
Thought any Presidential pay increases had be voted and approved by appropriate House and Senate budget committees! Is there no end to the abuse of power by the WORST man to ever occupy “our” White House!
this c**p needs changed when the next president gets in and remove this money he did not earn
He should live so long……
i hope when trump gets in there hetakes it away he can do it
Apparently it’s possible for some people to be conceived with a finger….ROMFFLMMFAO….Here’s your source…f**e news site. http://web.archive.org/web/20110623083806/http://weeklyworldnews.com/politics/34743/obama-gives-himself-a-raise/