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.
Kate Jeter-Benton I see that you are a sexual offender counselor-you badmouthed my work history (lawyer, college professor)-so much for your integrity
It’s not enough that he’s not even an American. Now he’s going to retire on the American taxpayers dime
How can he do that? I thought the House controlled the purse.
Wtf
Did I hear someone say no way nu uhhhhh, absolutely not.
scumbag
Trump will put his sorry$#%&!@*on welfare hahahahaha
tune in to fox news special about the depleted military tonight at 8pm, we dont even have enough planes to deploy our troops, they are robbing old moth ball jets for parts, the$#%&!@*idot obama has so weaked our military they cant even do their jobs, obama is the antichrist an the tratior to this once great nation, FACT.
Crook, and disgrace
crook