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.
Cuts funding to the Military and Veterans
He will need it once his crimes come out!
There are more important things than him getting more $. Education, stop letting the illegals in, eating enough instead of going hungry like Michelle’s doing.
SOB should go to jail!
Should be in jail an no retirement for destroying are country an lying about everything defending Hillary he said the was how he learned what a joke this traitor is
He is not worth any raise.
Sheer evil
It makes me sick to even hear,read or talk about th OBAMA’s
Yeah well that’s just a phone call and a pin away from being revoked, see the new guy can play that game too !
And, nobody can seem to have the ability to stop him? Is this America? What the hell is going on??