Fact Check: Did Chelsea Clinton Take Home $84 Million From USAID?
February 7, 2025
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A claim that circulated on social media this week about former first daughter Chelsea Clinton taking home $84 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) proved false.
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, serves as the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit that was created by Bill Clinton in 2001.
Newsweek reached out to the Clinton Foundation via email for comment on Friday.
Why It Matters
The USAID has recently come into focus because of the efforts of President Donald Trump’s administration to dismantle the foreign aid agency. In a crackdown on federal spending led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is working on behalf of the administration, USAID’s staff is being gutted and agency spending halted over the past two weeks. The moves have drawn fierce backlash from Democratic lawmakers, who say presidents cannot eliminate congressionally appropriated federal agencies.
Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City on September 24, 2024. Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City on September 24, 2024. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images
What To Know
At the center of the claim that Chelsea Clinton was pocketing millions from the USAID was a chart floating around X, formerly Twitter, from Data Republican that showed how money flowed from boxes of different organizations to a box labeled, “Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton” with “gross receipts” totaling $83,624,489.
One X user posted a photo of the chart and wrote, “Chelsea Clinton casually taking home $84 million.”
What Do The Facts Show?
Inside the “Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton” box on Data Republican’s chart is an employer identification number (EIN). Snopes, a fact-checking site, reported that when the listed EIN number is searched in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation pops up.
Snopes also reported that Chelsea Clinton did not receive any compensation for her work at the foundation since at least the fiscal year ending December 2013, according to tax return data published by ProPublica.
According to data from USAspending.gov, the official source for federal spending information, the claim that USAID provided the $84 million in funding is also incorrect.
Snopes reported, citing USAspending.gov, that the Clinton Foundation did not receive any money from the USAID from the 2008 fiscal year to now. The data only goes as far as the 2008 fiscal year. The Clinton Health Access Initiative received a grant of $7.49 million and spent a little over $6 million of it from 2019 to 2021. However, the Clinton Health Access Initiative is its own nonprofit.
Additionally, Snopes found that the Clinton Foundation received only one federal award of $49,998 from AmeriCorps National in 2010.
Newsweek has independently verified all of the above information found by Snopes.
What People Are Saying
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote on X on Friday that “there were some false claims posted about my family and the Clinton Foundation,” adding that it was “important to correct the record.”
Clinton said the foundation and its Clinton Global Initiative partners “have helped millions of people across America and around the world while earning top ratings from charity watchdogs.
“And it’s important people know our family doesn’t earn anything from this work, as fact checkers have repeatedly shown.
“The foundation doesn’t depend on federal grants.”
What Happens Next
Bill and Chelsea Clinton will convene the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in late September 2025 in New York City.
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