“”The truth is he wrote an executive order for her to get it for her but Congress denied it so she was never given the money. So, I was half right.””
That doesn’t appear anywhere online...do you have a source? Do you know the EO number? I really don’t think Congress has anything to say about EO’s...
From what I can gather, Obama tried to slip it into the following:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/30/2016-31875/adjustments-of-certain-rates-of-pay
But it was rejected by Congress. Why? Because his mother-in-law was not a federal employee. That is when we heard about it and assumed that it had passed, however it had been rejected. So, she ended up not getting the payout as Michelle intended.
Here is an explanation of how the rejection takes place:
https://www.nlc.org/article/executive-orders-101