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As his namesake presidential museum rises above the tree line in Chicago’s Jackson Park, the bottom line for former President Barack Obama’s foundation is rising as well.

As his namesake presidential museum rises above the tree line in Chicago’s Jackson Park, the bottom line for former President Barack Obama’s foundation is rising as well. The Obama Foundation raised $311 million in contributions and grants in 2022, according to the foundation’s annual IRS filing. That’s the largest sum the foundation has raked in since it got started in 2017. Net assets at the ...

The Obama Foundation compensation package for its chief executive, Valerie Jarrett, jumped to $754,064, in 2022, up from $592,905 in 2021.

Anxiety mounts that the 2020 playbook isn’t replicable and that Biden world may be too confident in it.

Some congressional Democrats want nothing more than to hand Attorney General William Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (among others) a “GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL” card like the ones you find in the game of Monopoly. But calls to lock them up are unjustified and uncalled for. What would jailing two Cabinet members be based on?

In his address at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the president sought to put words to the city’s resilience.

David Simas joined the foundation, which is building the South Side presidential center, in 2016 after working in President Barack Obama's White House and for his campaign.

The pair, which has one of the most extensive networks in Democratic politics, has shaped the White House’s response to the president’s handling of classified documents.

And Biden is considering a trip to the southern border for next week.

Obama Foundation officials defend the salaries as the natural outgrowth of a blossoming enterprise that aims to attract top talent.