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.
This is COMPLETELY Illegal , He may have given himself a Raise, but I Doubt He Will ever see it
SEE THE MIDDLE FINGER FOLKS..THIS IS WHAT HE REALLY THINKS ABOUT US!!!
I can think for several ways to get rid of this but I would want to go to prison. The only way to survive this mess is to stock up on your arms and ammunition and go off the grid.
Maybe he might live that long…
Danny Mcewin
Hey Danny just more Republican propaganda huh?….http://cdn.govexec.com/interstitial-android.html?rf=http%3A%2F%2Fm.govexec.com%2Fpay-benefits%2F2016%2F03%2Fsenate-democrats-want-triple-obamas-proposed-federal-pay-raise%2F126789%2F
Once he is out cut his retirement to $1.00 and day so we can say he has been paid.
that should not be allowed
The welfare king.
Expect that he will get more lawless because time is winding down. He’s a thug, and he doesn’t play by the rules. BUT……FIGHT BACK AMERICA….FIGHT ON!!! OUR CONSTITUTION IS STILL THE LAW OF THIS LAND. FIGHT ON!!!