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.
Really? Obama is gone guys. All the excuses are gone too. Both Houses of Congress are now Republican(since November 2014), Supreme Court Republican control for last 8 years, next President Republican guaranteeing a super majority (7 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices, first time in history). No more liberals to blame. How are they going to explain to the American People why Roe vs Wade is not reversed, IRS is not closed, no passage of “flat” tax, & no repeal of Obama Care etc. It will be entertaining. The dog just caught the car.
President Obama requested $3.865 million in his fiscal year 2017 budget request for the General Services Administration (GSA) to support pensions and benefits for former presidents. That was an increase of $588,000 (about 18%) from the previous fiscal year’s budget, which led to claims that Obama had “given himself a massive raise.”
In truth, Obama requested an 18% increase in fiscal year 2017 because there will be another former president to support that year: himself. The president’s budget request doesn’t change the law or give himself a raise, it simply allocates funding to support terms laid out in the Former Presidents Act of 1958, the Congressional Research Officereports:
The President’s FY2017 budget request seeks $3,865,000 in appropriations for expenditures for former Presidents, an increase of $588,000 (17.9%) from the FY2016 appropriation level. The increase in requested appropriations for FY2017 anticipates President Barack Obama’s transition from incumbent to former President. For FY2016, President Obama requested and received appropriations of $3,277,000 for expenditures for former Presidents—an increase of $25,000 from FY2015 appropriated levels.
Just to make sure that the spending increases that Obama requested for former presidents wasn’t out of line, we looked at what increases President George W. Bush requested for fiscal year 2009, when he was transitioning to a former president. As it turns out, Bush’s funding increase was very similar to Obama’s, the Congressional Research Service reports:
The FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act allocated $2,478,000 for pensions and GSA assistance to former Presidents. The President’s FY2009 budget requested $2,934,000 for expenditures for former Presidents. Pending House and Senate appropriations legislation recommends the requested amount.
Bush requested a 15% increase in former presidents spending before he left office, and Obama requested about 18%. But, to be clear, those increases didn’t change the amount either president would received in pensions. The increased funding was to support pensions and benefits laid out in the Former Presidents Act of 1958.
So, reports that President Obama gave himself a huge raise before leaving office are false
This should be left to the people of the United States of America to decided what he gets.. I believe 17 cents an hour is the going rate for making license plates in federal prison.
When or if he leaves office that’s the first thing to change.
I think we need Trump in office if we hope to get out of this mess.
He needs to be in prison
FALSE: Obama Signs Executive Order Giving Himself a Pay Increase.
F**e news reports President Obama issued an executive order granting himself a $100,000 pay raise.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/payraise.asp
nope but you believe it so it must be true
You know what did happen the repubs in congress reset an automatic pay raise for tbemselves look this up!!!! asshat greedy repubs.