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Showing Original Post only (View all)WaPo: An expensive reminder that Sanders still hasn’t dropped out: His Secret Service detail (HRCGP) [View all]
BURLINGTON, Vt. When Sen. Bernie Sanders, the now-vanquished Democratic presidential candidate, returns to Capitol Hill to vote on Monday, he is expected to be accompanied by his constant traveling companions from the campaign trail: the U.S. Secret Service.
Though Hillary Clinton has clinched the partys nomination, Sanders retains one of the trappings of a top-notch candidate. A team of agents still guards him at his home, where theyve constructed a small watch station on the property. They travel with him on commercial and charter flights and use a motorcade to whisk him through cities he visits. And they recently marched alongside him during a gay pride event here in his hometown after the Orlando shootings.
Such round-the-clock protection can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day. And with the potential for the Secret Service to be watching over Sanders through the Democratic convention in Philadelphia five weeks from now, the taxpayers may get stuck with a big security bill long after his campaign receded from the daily cable news cycle.
The continued security presence also reflects a larger reality of Sanderss muddled standing in the Democratic race. He has virtually no chance of becoming the partys nominee, and he is no longer pressing his case to Democratic leaders that he should. Yet Sanders remains an active candidate because he has not suspended his campaign or taken any other steps that would alter his official status.
Though Hillary Clinton has clinched the partys nomination, Sanders retains one of the trappings of a top-notch candidate. A team of agents still guards him at his home, where theyve constructed a small watch station on the property. They travel with him on commercial and charter flights and use a motorcade to whisk him through cities he visits. And they recently marched alongside him during a gay pride event here in his hometown after the Orlando shootings.
Such round-the-clock protection can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day. And with the potential for the Secret Service to be watching over Sanders through the Democratic convention in Philadelphia five weeks from now, the taxpayers may get stuck with a big security bill long after his campaign receded from the daily cable news cycle.
The continued security presence also reflects a larger reality of Sanderss muddled standing in the Democratic race. He has virtually no chance of becoming the partys nominee, and he is no longer pressing his case to Democratic leaders that he should. Yet Sanders remains an active candidate because he has not suspended his campaign or taken any other steps that would alter his official status.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders arrives at the Capital Hilton last week, his Secret Service detail in tow, to meet with rival and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
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WaPo: An expensive reminder that Sanders still hasn’t dropped out: His Secret Service detail (HRCGP) [View all]
Her Sister
Jun 2016
OP
A waste of tax payers money, want to know why there is not free college tuition, one day would
Thinkingabout
Jun 2016
#8
Bernie just got too used to the perks. What a let down it's going to be. Bummer.
Fla Dem
Jun 2016
#14
The rules of the FEC say he will have to reimburse his campaign for that personally.
Walk away
Jun 2016
#20