Bernie Sanders Still Has Expensive Secret Service Protection

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Bernie Sanders Still Has Expensive Secret Service Protection

Bernie Sanders, who has not yet officially bowed out of the 2016 presidential race, is still being protected by U.S. Secret Service agents on the taxpayer’s dime.

After Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic party’s nomination, the Vermont senator gave a concession speech on Thursday without formally declaring the end of his campaign. Many Sanders supporters have acknowledged that it’s all but impossible for him to be the Democratic nominee, but since he’s still in technically the running for president, he benefits from around-the-clock Secret Service protection, which can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day, the Washington Post reports.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-still-expensive-secret-163830018.html?nhp=1

Typical politician wasting tax payer money.
 
go Bernie go! he's in the race to shape the Democratic platform or if DoJ indicts Hillary.
$38,000 a day is less then..( fill in government extravagance)
 
Seahawk said:
Bernie Sanders Still Has Expensive Secret Service Protection

Bernie Sanders, who has not yet officially bowed out of the 2016 presidential race, is still being protected by U.S. Secret Service agents on the taxpayer’s dime.

After Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic party’s nomination, the Vermont senator gave a concession speech on Thursday without formally declaring the end of his campaign. Many Sanders supporters have acknowledged that it’s all but impossible for him to be the Democratic nominee, but since he’s still in technically the running for president, he benefits from around-the-clock Secret Service protection, which can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day, the Washington Post reports.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-still-expensive-secret-163830018.html?nhp=1

Typical politician wasting tax payer money.
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Cheap prick.
 
You are a cheap prick.
It isn't over until the fat lady sings...
Secret Servicedetails for candidates is a cost of Democracy.
 
I wish the secret service would abandon their post in Crooked Hillary's detail and leave her open to attack from Islamic groups. That would be awesome
 
Both Sanders and Senator Leahy are on a plane from Vermont to DC, I presume for the gun votes.

Leahy is in coach, Bernie is in 1st Class.

Methinks someone got very used to not only the spotlight, but to the good life.
 
The number the Post reported was frequently used by then–Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan in 2008. From CBS News (4/4/08):


The Secret Service is spending about $38,000 per candidate per day, Sullivan said, and at the height of campaign season later this year expects to spend $44,000 per candidate each day. The agency has protected candidates at more than 1,000 campaign venues and has put 550,000 people through magnetometers and metal detectors, he said.

Notice Sullivan isn’t saying the Secret Service is spending $38,000 per candidate in addition to what they would spend anyway. He’s only saying it’s what they spent per candidate. This, one can assume, includes fixed costs, like labor and infrastructure. Clearly, protecting Sanders also has other costs above fixed ones—like overtime, per diems, travel—but without any context or knowledge of what the $38,000 is in reference to, it’s a totally useless number. Wagner is taking a one-off McStat without explaining how it was arrived at, and using it to mean something much more specific and consequential.

The sleight-of-hand comes from taking a specific budget item and assuming that if it wasn’t there, the costs associated with it would disappear rather than be displaced. Wagner does this by saying “protection can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day,” which gives the reader the impression that if Sanders dropped out, “taxpayers” would magically get back $38,000.

Does anyone think the Secret Service is going to fire the exact number of agents assigned to Sanders the day he drops out? Does anyone think the additional vehicles and equipment needed will quickly be pawned off and the money transferred over to Johnny Taxpayer? Does anyone repeating this talking point think that if the Sanders campaign had ended one week ago the US federal government would somehow be $166,000 richer?
http://fair.org/home/no-sanders-secret-service-detail-isnt-costing-taxpayers-38000-a-day/
 
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