Obama Presidential Center Subcontractors Say They’re Owed Millions

fueling additional concerns about the project’s long-term financial obligations and whether sufficient safeguards are in place to protect taxpayers.

“One of their core promises was they were supposed to create an endowment as basically an insurance policy so the taxpayers wouldn’t get stuck with the bill,” Illinois GOP Chair Robert Grogan told Fox News Digital outside the center last week.

“They promised hundreds of millions of dollars for it. It’s still sitting at the $1 million mark [where it stood] when they opened it up. So I don’t believe that they’ve kept that promise,” he added.

The ongoing contractor disputes have intensified scrutiny of the