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.
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Todd Arnold
How the hell is he allowed to give himself a raise. Who, I wonder, does he think he is. A raise, for what, because he’s breathing. I so regret voting for this lesser of two evils his 1st term.
Vote any up for re-election out in November. No more career politicians!
Well said Patricia Ann Dunn Garza I am not a Democrat either and never voted either times for Obama. You think people would have learned the first 4 years. Hope and Change has been fulfilled only it was Obama’s hope to change America by destroying it.
Nothing more than a thief!!
I am sure he and his wife feel they are entitled.
he is still a lieing crook
How can he do that without getting approval? I don’t want him to get a penny more of America’s money and I feel like he should pY back all that he has taken to support ISIS & Iraq and for all the money he took to help with illegal emigrants that he brought into the states illegally and put in many different cities and took millions of our dollars to do this he is a Traitor and has committed treason and he lied about his place of birth
PUT HIS$#%&!@*IN PRISON!