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Here’s How Much Congressional Leaders Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer and John Thune Are Worth Both Democratic congressional leaders are richer than their Republican counterparts—and all four are getting paid even as the government has closed up operations.

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Congress is still collecting paychecks even as the government shutdown continues. Here's a collection of my coverage of congressional leadership finances:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

10.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Here’s How Much Hakeem Jeffries Is Worth The House minority leader and longtime politician is plenty comfortable, even after putting two kids through college.

NEW from me for @forbes.com: What better time than a government shutdown to finish my series on the net worth of congressional leadership? Here's House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, who's richer than Mike Johnson but poorer than his Senate counterparts:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

10.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here’s How Much Barron Trump Is Worth Trump’s youngest son taught his dad a thing or two about crypto. Now the NYU sophomore is making a fortune before he even turns 20.

The Trump family's crypto boom is even making its youngest members wildly wealthy. Just look at Barron, whose estimated fortune is now more than 800x that of the median American household:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

06.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 39    🔁 15    💬 15    📌 6
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Here’s How Much Barron Trump Is Worth Trump’s youngest son taught his dad a thing or two about crypto. Now the NYU sophomore is making a fortune before he even turns 20.

2025: The US president's 19-year-old son is worth an estimated $150 million.

@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

06.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 48    🔁 38    💬 39    📌 29
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Eric Trump Is Now A Billionaire It’s not just the president getting rich on crypto. His heirs are now making more money in months than Donald Trump did from decades in real estate.

As of this morning, the president's son is now a billionaire, too. From me and @danalexander21.bsky.social (check back for more updates!)

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

03.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 3
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Eric Trump Is Now A Billionaire It’s not just the president getting rich on crypto. His heirs are now making more money in months than Donald Trump did from decades in real estate.

🚨 Breaking: “Eric Trump Is Now A Billionaire In His Own Right”

@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social, @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

03.09.2025 15:48 — 👍 41    🔁 30    💬 11    📌 14
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Here’s How Much Energy Secretary Chris Wright Is Worth The energy secretary had to sell his extensive oil-and-gas holdings upon taking office. Now his most valuable asset is an estate in the ultraswank Yellowstone Club.

NEW from money in politics intern @lilyogburn.bsky.social for @forbes.com: Energy Secretary Chris Wright once drank fracking fluid on camera to try and prove its safety. Today, he's one of three centimillionaires in Donald Trump's Cabinet. Read the full profile here:
www.forbes.com/sites/lilyog...

13.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s Cabinet Is The Richest Ever The net worth of Trump’s Cabinet—made up of Wall Street financiers, former CEOs, TV hosts and one career politician—is the highest ever, even before counting POTUS.

4/4 Here's the breakdown, all the details, with additional reporting from the ever-diligent @danalexander21.bsky.social and @chasewithorn.bsky.social. You can dig into the whole list here:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

13.08.2025 14:10 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

3/4 That's far more than Donald Trump's previous Cabinet ($3.2B) and swamps Joe Biden's Cabinet (around $110M). It includes two other billionaires, three centimillionaires, and a whole collection of businesspeople and former CEOs. There's only one career politician among them.

13.08.2025 14:10 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

2/4 The money in politics team here at @forbes.com
has been hard at work putting together net worth estimates for everyone in Donald Trump's Cabinet, from the billionaires to the "mere" millionaires. Even without POTUS, it all adds up to $7.5 BILLION.

13.08.2025 14:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

NEW from me and @lilyogburn.bsky.social for @forbes.com today! After digging into thousands of pages of financial disclosures and public records and interviews with experts across the economy, we've can definitively say: Here's how much everyone in Donald Trump's Cabinet is worth. 1/4

13.08.2025 14:10 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The Vice President’s Net Worth Has Increased Along With His Fame The “hillbilly” is richer than ever thanks to a raise, strong equity markets and newly disclosed assets.

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Our estimate of JD Vance's net worth is up by $2 million this year, bringing it to $12 million. Dig into his newly disclosed assets and our other findings here: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

24.07.2025 19:26 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Here’s How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s we...

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Zohran Mamdani is neck and neck in the polls with Andrew Cuomo, but not so much in terms of his finances. Here's Forbes' take on his net worth as Election Day begins to wrap up:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

24.06.2025 23:03 — 👍 35    🔁 10    💬 33    📌 5
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How Did Andrew Cuomo Get So Rich? His political star soared, collapsed and now may rise again. His finances, though, have been on a steady upward trajectory, thanks to a book deal and a nuclear startup.

NEW from me for @forbes.com, an intervention in the NYC mayoral race discourse: how much Andrew Cuomo is worth and just how he got rich. Check it out!
www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

23.06.2025 18:17 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
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How Much Is Barron Trump Worth? Trump’s oldest children earned a couple million dollars a year working for their dad's real-estate empire. Barron Trump appears to be earning much more, much faster.

NEW from me and @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com: For the first time (we know of), Barron Trump is involved in the family business—and that means we've got an estimate for how much the 19-year-old has made from his father's crypto empire.

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

17.06.2025 18:49 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's How Much Scott Bessent Is Worth The South Carolinian struggled to generate big returns at his own hedge fund. Bessent has always thrived, however, working for big personalities.

"How Rich Is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent?

The South Carolinian struggled to generate big returns at his own hedge fund. Bessent has always thrived, however, working for big personalities."

@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

11.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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Here's How Much Scott Bessent Is Worth The South Carolinian struggled to generate big returns at his own hedge fund. Bessent has always thrived, however, working for big personalities.

NEW from me for @forbes.com: One of the wealthiest members of the Trump administration has a fortune that's tough to pin down. He's likely not a billionaire, but here's what I found in my valuation of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

10.06.2025 18:36 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Here’s How Much Kristi Noem Is Worth Noem, who often emphasizes her rough-and-tumble rural roots, can thank her husband’s insurance business for much of her money.

Wondering just how much DHS secretary Kristi Noem is worth? I dug into her finances and public records for @forbes.com and have the answer: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

31.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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Trump Media Is Raising $2.5 Billion To Build A Bitcoin Reserve As the pro-crypto White House moves to establish a strategic bitcoin stockpile, Trump’s media company is adopting a parallel approach.

Trump Media is building a Bitcoin reserve.

So is the Trump White House.

Two fronts, one crypto strategy.

Here’s how Trump’s private company and public policy just aligned—

me, for @forbes.com

27.05.2025 18:21 — 👍 375    🔁 200    💬 40    📌 18
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Looking Back At Trump's Years-Long Obsession With Oversized Airplanes As diplomats around the world struggle to figure out Trump, Qatar may have found the perfect way to please the American president—dangling a supersized gift to stroke his ego.

The always-incredible @danalexander21.bsky.social and I talked to folks who have been around Trump and planes for years and... they had not-always-PG thoughts for us. My latest for @forbes.com:
www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

13.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2
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Trump Store Touts ‘Presidential Gold Note’ As Tariffs Rattle Markets And Gold Prices Soar The $47 note contains about $11 worth of gold.

New: "Trump Store Touts ‘Presidential Gold Note’ As Tariffs Rattle Markets And Gold Prices Soar"

me, for @forbes.com

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23.04.2025 11:37 — 👍 144    🔁 60    💬 25    📌 13
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Don Jr. And Eric Trump Landed $3 Million In Stock For Joining Firm’s Advisory Board That Had Little Public Presence Before Their Appointment New SEC filings show the Trumps were granted 750,000 shares for joining the advisory board and helping the stock reach a 52-week high.

New: "Don Jr. And Eric Trump Landed $3 Million In Stock For Joining Firm’s Advisory Board That Had Little Public Presence Before Their Appointment"

me, for @forbes.com

17.04.2025 22:10 — 👍 199    🔁 117    💬 35    📌 19

With rare earths from China in the news, re-upping profiles I previously wrote for @forbes.com on Noveon, a recycler of these materials…https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2023/05/10/meet-the-texas-startup-that-recycles-rare-earth-magnets-bypassing-china/

17.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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How Scott Bessent’s LLC Flipped A House And Lost $100,000 In One Month South Carolina real estate records show an odd transaction just as Bessent was taking office as Treasury Secretary.

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears to have bought, then sold, a mansion in Charleston, losing $100,000 in just over a month. I dug into the documents and what we know here:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

17.04.2025 16:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Seattle Crosswalks Hacked To Sound Like Jeff Bezos Pedestrians pushing a crosswalk button near the University of Washington got to listen to “Bezos” spout on about not taxing the rich and even reference Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Hea...

Got to do some boots-on-the-ground reporting this morning when I heard my local crosswalk sound like Jeff Bezos and talk about Luigi Mangione:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

16.04.2025 19:35 — 👍 145    🔁 29    💬 7    📌 4
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Amid Global Trade War, Here Are 13 Countries Where Trump Does Business Most of the nations where Trump has properties are seeking negotiated settlements rather than retaliating against the U.S.

As the president declares war on the global economic order, it's worth remembering that, over the years, he's made millions from overseas deals and properties. Here's my rundown for @forbes.com of how tariffs might impact Trump-branded properties everywhere:

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

11.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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These Donors Gave Big To Trump. They Just Lost Billions Tariffs wiped out trillions of dollars in value Thursday, much of it held by the world’s richest people.

NEW from me and @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com: We figured out how much Trump's trade war is hurting his biggest supporters. Hint: nobody is safe.

www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

04.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump’s Truth Social Stake Drops $40 Million—Still Beats Market Post-Tariff Trump Media stock fell 1.87% Thursday—less than the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500, which tumbled after Trump’s sweeping Liberation Day tariff announcement.

New: "Trump’s Truth Social Stake Drops $40 Million—Still Beats Market Post-Tariff"

me, for @forbes.com

03.04.2025 23:13 — 👍 63    🔁 22    💬 7    📌 0
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Trump Media Executives Launch New SPAC Seeking $179 Million—And Target Crypto, Defense Sectors A blank-check firm led by Trump Media executives Devin Nunes and Eric Swider is looking to profit from Trump’s policy landscape.

New: Trump Media Executives Launch New SPAC Seeking $179 Million—And Target Crypto, Defense Sectors

me, for @forbes.com

19.03.2025 21:03 — 👍 124    🔁 74    💬 23    📌 22
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Here’s How Much Trump’s Attorney General Is Worth America’s newest attorney general can thank rising Florida real estate values, a few years of lobbying and a wealthy husband for her increasing fortune.

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Pam Bondi grew up near my home town and built a long career in public office. But she made her fortune through just a couple years of lobbying and MAGA legal work in the private sector. Here's how:
www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

18.03.2025 17:08 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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