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.
It’s a f**e news story. Check snopes.com. Obama didn’t give himself a huge pay raise.
Trump will take that away!!!!!!!!!
This POS hasn’t maintained the dignity of the office since his first day in it. F him, RACIST, anti-American, muslim, incompetent, arrogant, narcissistic scumbag!! No raise but rather a 50% cut I all benefits for him and the rest of the ex-presidents as they don’t deserve it (or need it). wtf
Give to yourself and take away from us ! That figures from a no good bunch of c**p like you !
F*cking douchebag. He doesn’t deserve anything but prison.
Omg
Aldo Rocco , It’s not two evils , a president that does not uphold his oath and allegiance too the country he is suppose too honor, and has treasonous act’s and a tyrant too the people, in many forms, just look at the news with these riots, obozo encourages this behavior, and orchestrates it as well. bozos dictating tyranny is a hanging offense or shot, period.
It can be taken away by TRUMP!
Gave it or proposed it? Just say no.
HELL NO THIS BASTARD NEEDS TO PAY THE US BACK EVERY DIME SINCE HE FRAUDED TO GET INTO OFFICE. AND HOPEFULLY WHEN THIS CORRUPT TERRORIST IS IN PRISON HE WONT GET$#%&!@*