Alex Soros, the 38-year-old son of Democratic megadonor George Soros, has visited President Joe Biden’s White House at least two dozen times since 2021, according to White House visitor logs.
Updated White House visitor logs place the younger Soros, who recently took over his father’s $25 billion empire, at the White House around 25 times between October 2021 and May 2024. His latest appearance was for a state dinner. The high-level meetings and appearances at exclusive gatherings have come as George Soros donates large checks to Democratic lawmakers and left-of-center causes, with Alex Soros also establishing himself as a top federal campaign contributor.
The White House visits illustrate how Alex Soros has gained influence in the Biden-Harris administration and likely would continue to have the ear of top officials in a Harris-Walz administration. Alex Soros was widely photographed attending meetings with Democrats at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. His fiancee, ex-Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, was as well.
Meanwhile, groups funded by George Soros have also enjoyed high-level Biden White House access, while, in some cases, helping to shape key policy behind the scenes.
In May, Alex Soros and Abedin attended a state dinner for Kenya at the White House and were joined by Binaifer Nowrojee, the president of the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations grantmaking network.
White House visitor logs also show Alex Soros attended at least two meetings in May in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, with his point person being State Department official Amos Hochstein.
Over the course of the Biden-Harris administration, Alex Soros has visited the private residence of Vice President Kamala Harris and met with recent top White House officials, such as Nina Srivastava and Ron Klain, the Washington Examiner reported.
Other large gatherings that he attended have included a state dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron and a White House event for the confirmation of left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, according to White House visitor logs.
While the Soroses remain a force in the left-wing donor world, internal tension has brewed among Open Society staff over Alex Soros’s alleged lack of communication about changes to the organization, sources told the Washington Examiner this year.
“Why aren’t we hearing from Alex?” one employee at Open Society said. “Why aren’t we having meetings with Alex for him to say, ‘Hey, this is the direction of the organization?’ I think it’s not clear what direction they’re really trying to go. It would be great if they gave more clarity. Are we planning for the long term? It’s concerning to a lot of staff that there doesn’t seem to be clarity for the long term.”
A spokesperson for Open Society declined to comment on the White House visits, telling a Washington Examiner reporter, “Your last story about Alex Soros showed that your newspaper is a platform for antisemitism and inaccuracies.” The spokesperson did not elaborate further.
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