MILLIONS OWED: Obama Center Subcontractors Owed Millions, Now Facing Ruin

Yet some of those same businesses now claim they have been left carrying enormous financial losses.

Omar Shareef, president of the African American Contractors Association, told Fox News Digital that several Black-owned contractors privately approached him seeking help after suffering significant losses tied to the project.

“The promise was that this project was going to uplift minority contractors and uplift the community,” Shareef said. “What sense is celebrating Juneteenth if our Black contractors are not getting their money?”