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Key Facts: Former presidents are very wealthy and continue to earn millions from books, speeches, and media deals, yet still receive over $5 million a year in taxpayer-funded pensions and perks for offices, staff, and supplies. Budget data for FY 2026 show that Biden’s office and expense perks will exceed those of the other former presidents. He also is eligible for a generous congressional pension for his time in the Senate. Senator Joni Ernst’s Presidential Allowance Modernization Act would cap pensions, limit expense allowances, and cut perks for wealthy ex-presidents to save taxpayers millions. Introduction Former President Joe Biden recently...

Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter teamed up for a video promoting the coronavirus vaccine. “This vaccine means hope, it will protect you and those you love from this dangerous and deadly disease,” Obama says in the ad released Thursday.

Bill Clinton is a multimillionaire, but you’re paying for the Cinemax in his office. That’s just one eyebrow-raising expense a former occupant of the White House has been allowed to put on the taxpayer tab every year, even though every living ex-president is quite wealthy. In an attempt to shed light on this little-known perk of being a former commander in chief, The Daily Caller — through a Freedom of Information Act request filed last year — has obtained thousands of pages of emails and documents from the government detailing how taxpayer money is spent on former presidents each year....

<p>The Saudi crown prince was visiting at a sensitive moment for the Middle East, so the White House plotted every detail of his weekend trip to Texas. After meeting with President Bush at his ranch, Crown Prince Abdullah was feted by the president's father at his presidential library in College Station. Then, to the dismay of White House planners, he saw an unscheduled and unexpected visitor: Bill Clinton. The former president, in Houston for a fundraiser and staying at the same posh hotel as the Saudi leader, headed upstairs after midnight for a private chat that had been arranged only a few hours earlier. Their 90-minute meeting didn't end until 2 a.m. Presidents are members of one of the world's most exclusive fraternities, those who know firsthand the challenges of the Oval Office. You might think that an incumbent would see his predecessors as valuable resources, as repositories of knowledge and experience, as potential advisers and envoys. You would be wrong.</p>