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.
We have a congress not representing the citizens that elected them. They are only interested in themself which is evident of them not standing up to this dictator in the WH! WE THE PEOPLE must NOTreelect them in the upcoming election. We MUST REPLACE ALL CAREER politicians!!
We need 2 prosecute this guy now
The Ultimate Sly Fox.
Interested to find out if he and his daughters will be paying the full freight of their college educations.
only IF the house approves.
How about giving the regular working person a nice pay rais . We deserve it more than he does . Let him and the Mrs get out and earn a living like the rest of America
Don’t think so!
I don’t believe this is true, however I wouldn’t put it passed him to try.
We will revoke it the first of the year along with most of the c**p he has pulled. Dictators don’t usually end well as will be the case when Trump takes office..
Greedy bastard.
He cannot make those decisions on his own, it is a budget thing. He would like to I am sure, but he does not even deserve the pay he has been drawing let alone a pension for destroying the country.