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.
Since when has Congress been able to stop him?? Remember he has a pen and phone and doesn’t need congress. Nice try liberal. But we are not all as ignorant as you.
Where is Congress? they control the money!!
May be he is going to donate some of it?
not his money why should he care? didn’t earn it just like all the rest of his people
The gap between rich and poor continues to grow, hmmm
We need to bring this government down!
What the hell have we got a Congress and senate for?
First reason to arrest him!
Somebody is not doing their job is all I kknow.
Wow…you are dumber than a box of rocks…it hasn’t happened and it’s not going to. Shows who’s the dumb ads when you people resort to name calling…sad…