Do as I say, not as I do, the DemocRAT way.---Sanders has repeatedly championed the Green New Deal and said climate change was an 'existential threat' -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who crisscrossed the country last year on a Fighting Oligarchy tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spent over $550,000 in 2025 on private jet travel for himself using campaign funds, a Fox News Digital review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings found. The majority of the spending came in the first two quarters, which cover up until July. That is also when Sanders and AOC had the majority of their tour stops across the country -- Sanders, who has been a vocal supporter of the Green New Deal, the aggressive climate change policy targeting carbon emissions and fossil fuel production, and has called climate change an "existential threat" to the world, was pressed about his private jet use last year, prompting him to tell Fox News' "Special Report" host Bret Baier that "that's the only way to get around." -- "That's the only way to get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're gonna do it in future." --Private jets have faced the ire of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez's fellow climate activists. According to the 2021 Transport and Environment report, private jets are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes. "For real, how many private jets do these CEOs need? It is insatiable. It is unacceptable," Ocasio-Cortez said in 2023, in one example of the New York congresswoman herself railing against private jets. -- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-spent-over-550k-2025-campaign-funds-private-jets-filings-show
