House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy chided President Obama’s request in the fiscal 2017 budget for an 18 percent increase in his post-White House salary.
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“This president is so out of touch,” McCarthy told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Tuesday, adding Congress would not approve his raise above the annual allotment of $199,700.
That base salary is the same amount current members of the president’s cabinet receive and does not include the $96,000 stipend for office employees and free lifetime postage. Instead of asking taxpayers to fund a higher retirement salary, the California Republican said Obama should “go out and understand what’s going on in this country.”
