The amount of pensions paid to Barack Obama and other former US presidents will be substantially reduced. This initiative (and not for the first time) is promoted by the Republican Party. Already this month, the relevant bill will be submitted to the Congress.

This will be done by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Supervision and Government Reform Jason Chaffetz and Senator Joni Ernst. The document, prepared by them, provides for the payment of pensions to the ex-heads of the state a limit of $ 200 thousand. In the year, and also establishes the same limit on the expenses of former presidents covered from the federal budget,. In the first place, with the content of assistants, reports USA Today.

According to the bill, US authorities will reduce these payments if the additional revenues of ex-leaders of the country exceed $ 400 thousand. in year. Pensions and hospitality payments in such cases will be cut in proportion to additional incomes.

A similar step from the strophe of the ruling party was the information that had been received a few days ago that for one speech at a conference in September Obama would receive a fee of $ 400 thousand. This amount roughly exceeds the annual income of an average American family by seven times and is equal to the annual salary received by Obama during his reign in the White House.

In 2016 year. Almost the same bill Jason Chaffetz has already submitted to Congress. Then he was supported in both parties and unanimously adopted both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. But President Barack Obama, using his right of veto, rejected him, explaining his step by the fact that, if the document becomes legal, negative "unforeseen circumstances" may arise and ex-presidents will be "unjustified (financial) burden", forcing, to For example, to dismiss assistants and urgently to look for much less expensive offices.