Trumps Spend $5 Million Less Than Obamas On White House Salaries
Thomas Phippen
4:39 PM 07/02/201

An analysis of White House salary data reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration is spending $5 million less of taxpayer money on his staff than his predecessor.

Trump employs 377 people at the White House, with a total of $35.8 million, while former President Barack Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015, according to data analyzed by Open The Books. (RELATED: White House Releases Employee Salaries)

Another key difference between the Obama and Trump White House is the first lady’s staff. Michelle Obama retained 24 staffers in the first year of the Obama White House. Melania Trump currently employs four — a chief of staff who is also listed as advisor to the president, a deputy chief of staff, a communications director, and a scheduler.

“Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million,” Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open The Books, writes for Forbes. Those projected savings include Trump’s promise to accept one dollar in salary and give the remainder back to the U.S. Treasury.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, both advisors to the president, are not accepting any salary. Most top White House staff, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Manigault, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, and 17 others make $179,000 annually.

Obama had the same number of top advisors at this stage of his presidency in 2009, but he also appointed many “czars” to oversee special initiatives with a particular focus on recovery efforts after the 2008 financial crisis. Trump has not continued that

While $22 million in savings is a tiny amount compared to the nearly $20 trillion national debt or the $3.9 trillion federal budget, “it could be a leading indicator of Trump’s commitment to cut waste, fraud and taxpayer abuse,” Andrzejewski said.


http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/02/trumps...house-salaries/

July 3, 2017
Trump’s powerful message of a ‘lean’ White House cutting staff and saving ‘bigly’
By Thomas Lifson

President Trump is setting an example for the rest of the bloated, expensive federal bureaucracy, and sending a powerful message to the voters with serious cuts to his own staff,, and impressive savings for taxpayers. He has drained his own swamp first.

But don’t expect a big fuss to be made of it right now. The mainstream media will do its best to ignore anything that places the president in a favorable light. There is plenty of time for this to sink in, and when voters are asked to choose between parties, a lot of people respond from the gut when they see a politician starting by cleaning up his own mess first. The political ads write themselves.

But for those who want to pay attention right now, the White House’s annual report to Congress on White House Personnel, released Friday, is an impressive example of leading by example. Adam Andrezjewski, the founder of OpenTheBooks.com writes about his analysis of the report’s data in Forbes:

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Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million. Savings come from President Trump’s refusal to take a salary as well as big reductions in other areas including the absence of czars, expensive “fellowships,” and spending on FLOTUS staff. (snip)

There are 110 fewer employees on White House staff under Trump than under Obama at this point in their respective presidencies.

$5.1 million in payroll savings vs. the Obama FY2015 payroll. In 2017, the Trump payroll amounts to $35.8 million for 377 employees, while the Obama payroll amounted to $40.9 million for 476 employees (FY2015).

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This is a 12.5%, or an eighth, rounded off. But as the article later points out, part of the salary savings include the salaries of the president and his family, which they have all donated back, and the reduced salaries received by some wealthy individuals, as well as the reduction in the number of staff.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017...ving_bigly.html