The Funding Well for the Biden Library Has Completely Dried Up
“Sad and fitting final chapter to a sad and tragic presidency.”
Joe and Jill Biden have, for the most part, been personae non grata within the Democratic Party ever since the former president’s disastrous debate performance in June 2024 against then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump
Mr. Biden was then summarily pushed to drop out of the presidential race in the aftermath, something he did a month later under immense pressure from top Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), in what some political observers at the time described as a “soft coup” of sorts.
After Biden’s successor replacement, Vice President Kamala Harris, was trounced on Election Day, with Democrats also losing the Senate in spectacular fashion, the Bidens mostly faded from the scene for a short time – outside of Biden taking the time to pardon family members – to lick their wounds and regroup.
When they tried to return in March, with Joe Biden talking to DNC Chair Ken Martin behind the scenes to let him know he wanted to campaign and fundraise on behalf of Democrats again, Biden reportedly got the cold shoulder:
Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design, according to people close to him.
[…]
So far, Biden’s overture seems to have fallen flat. Democrats find themselves adrift, casting about for a compelling messenger.
Whoever that is, it’s not Biden, many party activists and donors contend. He’s tethered to the 2024 defeat and, at 82, is a symbol more of the party’s past than its future, they argue.
Not long after that, the floodgates opened, with books being released and discussions about Biden’s decline by “reporters” who had previously tried to assure the American people that Biden was just fine and capable of leading the country in a second presidential term.
In the middle of all this, it was revealed that the Biden Inc. financial pipeline was drying up.
Fast forward a few months, and we’re learning that not much has changed, as even the funding well for a Biden library, which they tried to restart in late summer of 2025, remains dormant:
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project, according to public filings and interviews with his donors.
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden’s library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration.
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Still, Mr. Biden’s foundation told the I.R.S. this year that it expected to bring in just $11.3 million, total, by the end of 2027. That would be far below the pace set by other recent presidents, and far less than the $200 million that Mr. Biden’s aides say they want to raise eventually.
“Partly because of that poor fund-raising, discussions are underway about consolidating a potential Biden library with pre-existing Biden institutions at the University of Delaware,” the New York Times also reported.
🚨Report: Joe Biden has raised only a small share of the money needed for a presidential library
His foundation has no new donations in 2024
He has $4M left over from his inauguration
He expects to raise $11.3M by 2027 which is far short of the $200M that is required
Via: NYT pic.twitter.com/BPFDMerAJS
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) December 13, 2025
Reactions on X were swift:
Crazy that a "Mount Rushmore kind of president” like Joe Biden can’t rustle up funding from Democrats for a library. https://t.co/FTahds7CzG pic.twitter.com/m7jCwscTl5
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 13, 2025
Dems: Biden was greatest president of our lifetimes and deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore.
Biden: Hey, can you spare some change for my library?
Dems: ***crickets*** https://t.co/OGwV5rEqag
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 13, 2025
I guess this will be the Biden library. https://t.co/2WxqzYg68g pic.twitter.com/2jeb20MKy9
— RoadMN (@RoadMN) December 13, 2025
Democrat strategist Dan Turrentine, the national financial director for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and who also held a similar role at the DNC in the early 2000s, had this reaction:
Sad and fitting final chapter to a sad and tragic presidency.
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library – The New York Times https://t.co/VsUms5dtlt
— dan turrentine (@danturrentine) December 13, 2025
Sounds about right.
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I don’t expect to be alive to bask in the warm glow of “I told ya so” but someday it will be conclusively shown that Biden’s presidency was utterly illegitimate, the election having been stolen from the American people.
That he hasn’t been able to raise the funds to build a library isn’t “sad”, as lamented above, it’s just desserts. While no one wishes dementia upon another person, in Joe Biden’s case, it took away a middling intellect possessed by a mean-spirited and deeply corrupt man.
“…someday it will be conclusively shown that Biden’s presidency was utterly illegitimate…”
As was Obama’s presidency before him.
Most especially the second term. I went to bed stunned that as poorly as he performed, he was reelected.
“a middling intellect possessed by a mean-spirited and deeply corrupt man.”
It was a matter of public record that he was a Democrat.
I keep thinking back to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing and thinking to myself what a (bleep) 🫏 (bleep) he was to him. The description of his behavior in Thomas’s memoir is nearly unbelievable.
He probably has enough to establishe the Biden Presidential Library Bookmobile,
https://www.echoparkspeedway.com/images/23-lg.jpg
He could fit everything in his corvette.
He can’t raise money for his presidential library because he wasn’t really the president and the donors (who worked to get him in office in the first place) knew it all along.
Most votes in any election in US history by the way
If it helps, the library in Congress is holding a sale of surplus books next Saturday.
Not the Library OF Congress… the library IN Congress. Arizona.
Area fans of Tom Clancy and Julia Quinn will be there, Joe! Will you?
I’m sure that the “built back better” legacy supporters realized that anything Biden might build would upstage Obama’s “obamination” under construction in Chi town. Can’t have that, nope!
To capture the true Biden essence, the library must be a brand new Frank Gehry commission.
He’ll probably be invited to put his name on our new $9 million library that our overly woke town of 1800 people decided we need to tax ourselves to build. Apparently we need a place for the community to gather, even though some of us have no interest in communing with our neighbors.
We have a saying out here in rural Arizona: to start a new town, you need a saloon and a church — in that order. And that’s all the places any community needs to gather for any purpose.
In Canada it was a Church and a bank . The American West and how it settled by a opening a Saloon and a Church to start a town holds far more intrigue to me on how the West was won. And of course being on the rail line too helped tremendously!
Heh! completely dried up
Just like Joey hisself.
I have yet to see a book about the cognitive decline of those party leaders who pushed Biden to run for president at first
I think the DoJ should pay for his library, in order to centralize all the evidence against him and the cabal that controlled him.
A Biden library might go in the basement of that East German looking Obama monstrosity in Chicago. There all the forged documents, plagierized speeches and Cliff’s Notes underlined paragraphs would fit neatly on one shelf.
Ranked as the 14th best president by several polls of academic historians.
Received 82 million votes for president, the most in history.
But cant raise money for his presidential library.
Hmm ! – what am I missing ?
Counterfeit money to go with those counterfeit votes.
Kamala says, “I’ll have a marble bust in Congress and be remembered as a historical figure long after Joe Biden has dried up and blown away.”
Conclusion: The Audio-Animatronic figure of Biden in Florida is more realistic than the one in Maryland.
Take Kamala seriously.
After all, as dumb as she is, there are millions who are dumb enough to vote for her.
Joe Biden presidency:
We, the legimate voting citizens of the United States of America, were scammed from the outset; the point that the Democrat party had no one else to put up for the position of POTUS.
From that day forward, the criminal actions of the Democrat party only became more outrageous.
Go ahead: argue my points.
Come on Joey. Just run again!! I got the slogan for you too: 82 for 28!
Strange, I thought China, Ukraine and others whom Dementia Joe shook down would step up here.
I still expect a the Xi Wing to house the majority of Hunter’s paintings.
We should point out that neither Biden or Obama are trying to create libraries. They are specifically creating “centers” which fall outside of the National Archive purview and allow all information to be kept in house and released only if they want it to. What are they hiding?
Everything they can get away with.
“…in what some political observers at the time described as a “soft coup” of sorts.”
Since the biden cabal used biden as a figurehead only, there was no real coup.
The real coup was the stolen election of 2020. We had four long years of a corrupt government dedicated to the overthrow of freedom, liberty, and democracy. They nearly succeeded. But, President Trump persevered, dedicated to America and to righting the wrongs visited upon us.
The trouble is that we have a weak group of Republicans in the House and Senate who are too afraid to codify Trump’s agenda and efforts, and are too afraid to push the courts back to their constitutionally proscribed boundaries.
Still, you’d think the CCP and Zelensky would still support the Brandon Crime Family.
If they can’t afford a new one, perhaps there is a used porta-potty they could repaint.
Biden Presidential Library?
I thought that was a Dead-end Hallway, that as in the Obama Monolith, in Chicagoland…,
Why do they need money? Just grab all the necessary documents from the garage.