Clintons say they made $25 million in speaking fees since January 2014

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton reported Friday they earned more than $25 million combined in speaking fees since January 2014.

Clinton’s presidential campaign reported the income in a personal financial disclosure report filed with the Federal Election Commission. The report, required of every candidate for the White House, also shows Hillary Clinton earned more than $5 million from her 2014 memoirs, “Hard Choices.”

The details of the report were described by a Clinton campaign official who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a report not yet publicly available from the FEC. The report was expected to be released publicly later Friday.

While Clinton has begun her second campaign for president by casting herself as a champion for middle-class voters, she’s long draw criticism from Republicans about the wealth she and Bill Clinton have amassed since he left the White House. That includes their ability to command six-figure fees for delivering speeches.

During last year’s book tour, Clinton told an interviewer that her family was “dead broke” when they left the White House, which Republicans said showed a lack of understanding of the needs of typical families.

Liberals have also questioned whether Clinton is too closely tied to Wall Street. They are also wary she might not aggressively seek to regulate the nation’s financial industry.

The campaign official said the FEC filing will show that the couple earned more than $25 million for more than 100 paid speeches between January 2014 and May 2015.

In an interview with NBC News this month, Bill Clinton defended the speaking fees: “I gotta pay our bills. And I also give a lot of it to the (the family’s charitable) foundation every year.”