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.
Congress needs to stop this but they are crooked as he is
Sly guy, gets away with everything.
Why isn’t he impeached now
nigmus
He won’t get it.
he has done treason$#%&!@*this send him to jail
we need limits on congress terms n salary adjustments for all these politicians
This story is total b*******, even the president of the United States does not have that kind of power, not without approval from Congress, if he did every president before him would have done the same thing,
NOT without House approval he won’t
While our military is trying to deal with sub standard jets and low pay, this commander-in-chief makes sure he can continue to live high on the hog off the backs of hard working American tax payers. He and his wife think they deserve to live like the hollywood celebrities they entertain at OUR White House. They disgust me!