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.
Any and all spending requires Congressional approval….
Bernie Howard I was wide awake from the very start,never voted for the idiot!
So he can eat McDonald’s when they start getting $15 an hour. Don’t forget the people on Social Insecurity, we will need more money too
And he has cut the vets and the military,lmpeach
Never voted for him ,My dumb college educated daughter did,twice! Vote Trump 2016
article not true
Chris Miles
Watch yourself Cardiff when you say Americans your speaking about me,I was born,raised and served my country and can assure you that I did not ever vote this scum bag into office.Apology accepted!
Too bad Everybody doesn’t care about our country.
Amen to that!