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.
Of course he did!!
Yet he wouldn’t give those on SS a penny more. Smfh
Aldo Rocco you must be braindead
And he expects us to pay it.
Nancy Hundley Vanotti get a brain
It still has to be approved, but you know congress and senate, bunch of limpdicks, they all need to be booted out
he cant do that , only congress can do that.
Why his pay should be taken off of him he didn’t do any thing except try to take this country apart for his muslin dam friends
If Congress didn’t want us to feel the burn, why did they allow this to happen?
NO HE DID NOT! Sitting presidents not ELIGABLE for retirement raise! Stop with the bull shot!