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After building an ugly, overprice, monstrosity marring the design of a famous Chicago park, anybody surprised to learn that the Obama Presidential Center has failed to pay the help?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Multiple little-guy contractors have told\u00a0Fox News that they’ve been stiffed on the payments for their goods and services.<\/p>\n

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DEI: Only black contractors were allowed to work on Obama\u2019s billion dollar boondoggle in the name of equity, Obama is stiffing them in the name of reality. pic.twitter.com\/uwyO1ZUsfi<\/p>\n

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\u2014 @amuse (@amuse) June 15, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

According to Fox News:<\/p>\n

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Concern is mounting that taxpayers could be left holding the bag if the Obama Presidential Center runs into financial trouble, as the foundation behind it has yet to establish a promised $470 million safety net to guard against a public bailout.<\/div>\n
The scrutiny comes as a Fox News Digital investigation found multiple contractors and subcontractors claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions on the project, with some alleging they remain locked in payment disputes and face financial ruin just days before the center’s grand opening.<\/div>\n
Under its agreement with the city, the Obama Foundation pledged to create the fund, known as an endowment, as part of its 99-year deal to take control of the publicly owned 19.3-acre section of Jackson Park for a one-time payment of just $10.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So if they don’t create the fund, the city should rightfully get the wrecking ball out and get rid of the ugly monolith, because it’s nakedly\u00a0violating its contract.<\/div>\n
But that won’t happen so long as the city is run by Democrats.\u00a0<\/div>\n
That’s allowed the Obama team to conclude that there’s nothing they can’t get away with, including running out on their tab from\u00a0contractors.<\/div>\n
It has a million-dollar endowment on paper, and presumably still there if there’s no funny bookkeeping.<\/div>\n
It pays Valerie Jarrett a minimum $740,000 per year salary. Its other former Obama administration staffers clock in at $400,000 to $600,000-plus salaries. It’s got money in the bank, plus big-dollar ticket fees for admission to the monolith.<\/div>\n
Fox adds that there are a lot of them:<\/div>\n
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Salaries and benefits soared from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024, as staffing expanded to 337 employees and annual revenue reached nearly $210 million.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
But the little guy who smooths the cement or does the gardening or catering or windows and floors gets nothing, and as the video report notes, some of these small businesses are going bankrupt for not getting paid.\u00a0<\/div>\n
And the Obama center says nothing, effectively rendering these black contractors’ delivered work slavery, work for nothing. Work for ‘the honor’ of paying obeisance to\u00a0The Won.<\/div>\n
Something about that is just so … Democrat. Democrats expect others to do things for them for free, and like doing it. They have a special contempt for the little guy;\u00a0the guys Obama has oleaginously praised with his forked tongue, with\u00a0‘work hard,’ and all that.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Somehow, he can’t be bothered to pay the help, unless a media spotlight is on them, and even then, not necessarily so. They just don’t value the work these people have done, nor do they value the work America has done. They pay themselves first and let the rest of the contributors twist in the wind.\u00a0<\/div>\n
It’s outrageous and this story ought to be better known.<\/div>\n
Image: Screenshot from Fox News video on X<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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