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Sun Jun 19, 2016, 04:08 PM Jun 2016

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 party’s nomination, Sanders retains one of the trappings of a top-notch candidate. A team of agents still guards him at his home, where they’ve 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 Sanders’s muddled standing in the Democratic race. He has virtually no chance of becoming the party’s 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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As if Sanders gives a shit. Metric System Jun 2016 #1
+1000 Fla Dem Jun 2016 #16
Is he paying for it? MFM008 Jun 2016 #2
Taxpayers are paying for it. Koinos Jun 2016 #6
This is why we can't have nice things MattP Jun 2016 #3
Bernie loves living that 1%er life. CrowCityDem Jun 2016 #4
Give this up? yallerdawg Jun 2016 #5
He loves the celebraty status. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2016 #21
Secret Service Iamaartist Jun 2016 #7
A waste of tax payers money, want to know why there is not free college tuition, one day would Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #8
He is also still collecting his Senate salary. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #9
The article mentions Ben Carson Her Sister Jun 2016 #12
A Republicon caring more about tax waste... sheshe2 Jun 2016 #18
Every. little. thing. DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #10
So when does this end? pandr32 Jun 2016 #11
Live like a rock star wysi Jun 2016 #13
Bernie just got too used to the perks. What a let down it's going to be. Bummer. Fla Dem Jun 2016 #14
You know, given the obscene scope of campaign financing, this is peanuts. Native Jun 2016 #15
The rules of the FEC say he will have to reimburse his campaign for that personally. Walk away Jun 2016 #20
Expensive! NurseJackie Jun 2016 #17
Socialists love to spend other people's money. Walk away Jun 2016 #19
There's NO More Primaries.. why the Hell hasn't he dropped out and Still Using Tax Payers Cha Jun 2016 #22
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