Former President Obama Costs Taxpayers $1 Million a Year

Were you aware that your taxpayer dollars are footing the bill for former President Obama’s private offices, his IT costs, his cell phone bills and other perks? Together with Obama’s $236,000 per year pension, plus 24/7/365 Secret Service protection for him and Michelle (even when they’re separated), Obama is costing the U.S. government more than $1 million per year — more than any other living ex-president. This is despite the fact that since leaving office, he’s signed a $60 million deal for his memoirs and received $800,000 for just two speeches.

Is this a colossal waste of money, or what?

While it’s standard for the U.S. to afford Secret Service security for all former presidents for the remainder of their lifetimes (as well as a pension), the additional perks that the Obama family receive are just a case of throwing good money after bad.

Making matters worse, since Obama left office, he’s purchased an 8,000 square-foot mansion surrounded by high walls in the ritzy Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, from which he’s running a “shadow government” whose function is to destroy, resist and obstruct the Trump administration at every turn. Some people even say the entire FBI is still under Obama’s control, due to lower-level administrative “holdovers” at the Bureau.

And this is when Obama isn’t flying around the world meeting with prime ministers and presidents of other nations, sometimes within hours or days before or after they’ve met with President Trump. If political-watchers didn’t know better, they might be convinced that Obama still thinks he’s the president of the country.

As Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa explains to Fox’s Stuart Varney in this clip, these costs are absolutely ridiculous given that the national debt is now more than $20 trillion. Watch as Ernst explains what she wants to do to cut this spending and help get more of President Trump’s MAGA agenda items enacted.


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