Seems more than being a snot. What Barry is doing is giving the country a show of power: he’s spending extra money, and deliberately making people’s lives more difficult for no better reason than this: because he can.
Of course, he has the legal t’s crossed and i’s dotted, probably, but that’s just a fig leaf. It’s a warning shot across the bow of the American people: the government does not work for the people, the people belong to the government.
And it’s the ‘new normal’.
He’s doubtless been told that the web blogs (actually a small handful of very busy trolls) will dutifully blame this on Republicans, so why not make it as big a stink as possible. And so he does.