Congress may seek to cut the pension of Barack Obama following his decision to accept a $400,000 fee for an upcoming speech to Wall Street executives.

 

美国国会可能试图削减奥巴马的退休金。因为他将以40万美元（约合276万元人民币）的出场费给华尔街高管们做演讲。

 

During his time in the White House, Mr Obama vetoed a bill that would have capped the retirement¹ funds of former presidents should they accept large sums of outside income.

 

Now that Mr Obama himself meets those criteria², Republican sponsors of the bill have said they will revive the legislation and hope that President Donald Trump³ signs it into law.

 

"The Obama hypocrisy⁴ on this issue is revealing," Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight⁵ and Government Reform Committee and sponsor of the 2016 bill told USA Today. "His veto was very self-serving."

 

Mr Chaffetz, and Jodi Ernst, a Republican senator from Iowa, who sponsored the companion bill in the Senate, have announced that they will re-introduce the Presidential Allowance Modernization⁶ Act this month.

 

The bill would caps presidential pensions at $200,000, plus the same for expenses. But those payments would be reduced dollar-for-dollar once their outside income exceeds $400,000.

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