Barack Obama's plans after the presence reached another Snafu when the Doge department of Elon Musk canceled the lease for a storage facility in Chicago with his presidential records.
The lease is located in Hoffman Estates in northwestern Chicago and is independent of the 9.3 hectare large, $ 830 million Obama Presidential Center in the Southide, which is expected to open next year.
The Obama President Center seems to be years from the start, because it was confronted with lawsuits, ballooning costs and building delays.
Moreover, the former president and wife Michelle fight back against rumors about divorce.
Former President Barack Obama's library plans are another Snafu
The site that is closed by Musk is in Hoffman Estates and is run by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The Nara began to rent the building in 2016 and, according to the General Services Administration, paid $ 1.4 million in rent every year.
Nara uses it as a temporary storage for tens of millions of documents, classified records and more than 35,000 artifacts and gifts collected by the Obama family during his eight years in office.
Gifts to a president's ownership of the United States, according to the federal law. If a president wants to keep them, they have to pay full costs – otherwise the gifts will go to the archives for conservation.
Obama keepsakes in storage includes a jewelry sword from Saudi Aarabia, dresses worn by Michelle Obama at inaugural ceremonies, Silver Blackberry from Barack Obama and a baseball signed by the San Francisco Giants 2010, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The items are sent to a permanent site in College Park, Maryland, and occasionally borrowed from the Obama presidential center to be shown.
The Obama Presidential Center – which is still being built after a series of Snafus – is a private company that is funded by the Obama Foundation, which is supported by private donors.
But Obama's data is the property of the federal government.
There are approximately 25 million non -classified paper documents in the Hoffman Estate Building and they are digitized. They will be available in digital format at the Obama Presidential Center when it opens.
Musk and President Donald Trump have had a mission to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
The cancellation of the Obama facility is one of the many federal lease contracts and contracts that are terminated, according to a list published by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk's is working on closing approximately half of the government office space throughout the country.
But almost 40% of the nearly 2,300 announced contract terminations will not save money, the AP reported, especially since the funds have already been issued or committed.
And federal officials said they were already planning to leave the lease for the Obama facility later this year.
Barack Obama received an enormous reception from the crowd when he was introduced during an interval from the La Clippers and Detroit Pistons match
Elon Musk and his government efficiency are on a mission to reduce the size and expenditure of the government
The Obama Presidential Center is still being built and is expected to open next year
Barack Obama was in the NBA on Wednesday to see how the clippers beat the pistons
In the meantime, Obama had one of the best seats in the house to see the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA on Wednesday evening – but he did not bring Michelle with him.
In the midst of months of divorce rumors with which the couple who have been married for 32 years, the former president, sat with clippers – owner Steve Ballmer – a former Microsoft CEO – and his wife Connie Snyder for the match against Detroit Pistons.
Obama received a huge reception when he was presented to the crowd during an interval in the game, standing up and waved with fans who had packed the 18,000 seats Intuit Dome in Inglewood.
The 63-year-old has confronted for months with intensifying control of his marriage. Obama was remarkably only in the state funeral of Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Donald Trump, where Michelle broke the tradition by refusing to be present.
And the presidential center of Obama has confronted many delays.
It stood for legal challenges for his plans to build in Jackson Park, a historic public park, on the south side of Chicago.
Obama insisted to have his center – which will be more than a traditional presidential library – built in the historic area and finally won approval.
The land was broken in September 2021.
Subsequently, the construction of the library was stopped for a few days in 2022 after a sling was found on site.
The campus of around $ 830 million – a huge increase compared to the original budget of $ 500 million – is expected to include a museum, Obama Foundation Offices, a public library and recreational space.
The final opening, previously planned for 2021 before the challenges arose, is ready to establish a modern record for time between a presidency and completion.
The opening is currently planned for 2026.
The Ronald Reagan library opened just over 1,000 days after the last day of Reagan at the office. Bill Clinton's lasted 1,398 days. Those of George HW Bush and George W. Bush were on average 1,653 days.
It is likely that the Obama center will open more than 3,100 days since he was president.
