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Financial Disclosures Show JD Vance 2025 Income at $1.4 Million to $7.4 Million
Vice President JD Vance and First Lady Melania Trump reported higher 2025 earnings than in 2024, according to federal filings. President Trump's minimum reported business income exceeded $2.2 billion. The disclosures cover outside ventures while in office.
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Federal financial disclosures show Vice President JD Vance reported total income between $1.4 million and $7.4 million in 2025, up from a range of roughly $213,000 to $1.3 million the prior year. Washington Examiner reported that a significant portion came from royalties and advances on his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which generated between $1.2 million and $5.2 million last year compared with less than $100,000 in 2024.
Vance also sold his stake in the venture fund Rise of the Rest, which he co-founded in 2017 with AOL co-founder Steve Case, bringing in at least $100,000.
The filings listed no income for his wife, Usha Vance. Vance resigned his Senate seat 10 days before taking office as vice president, so the disclosures exclude any Senate salary. First Lady Melania Trump reported business income between $17.3 million and $18.
Washington Examiner reported that this total included a $10. President Donald Trump's minimum reported earnings from his business empire topped $2.2 billion in 2025, a figure that exceeded the combined outside income reported by the vice president and first lady.
The disclosures detail income from investments, book deals, licensing agreements and other ventures for the president, vice president and first lady while serving in office.
