福克斯独家报道： 佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯（I-Vt.）去年与纽约州众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（D-N.Y.）共同展开“打击寡头政治”巡回活动期间，其竞选资金在2025年用于私人飞机出行的花费超过55万美元，福克斯新闻数字版对美国联邦选举委员会（FEC）备案文件的审查发现。
大部分支出集中在前两个季度，即截至7月的期间。这也是桑德斯和奥卡西奥-科尔特斯在全国范围内举办巡回活动的主要时段。
今年4月，在巡回活动的间隙，福克斯新闻数字版独家获取了一张桑德斯在加利福尼亚州贝克斯菲尔德梅多斯机场登上庞巴迪挑战者豪华私人飞机的照片。消息人士还表示，看到纽约州女议员也登上了这架私人飞机。
随后，福克斯新闻数字版获取的视频显示，两人当晚晚些时候在萨克拉门托下飞机，而在那里，这两位自称为民主社会主义者的人士一天内举办了第二次集会。
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯的竞选资金大量投入波多黎各豪华酒店、昂贵餐饮和Bad Bunny演出场地租赁
根据一名现场消息人士拍摄并独家提供给福克斯新闻数字版的照片，桑德斯于周二下午在加利福尼亚州贝克斯菲尔德梅多斯机场登上了庞巴迪挑战者豪华私人飞机。消息人士还看到桑德斯和奥卡西奥-科尔特斯登上了这架私人飞机，就在他们在贝克斯菲尔德的“打击寡头政治”活动前几小时。
两人乘坐的庞巴迪挑战者私人飞机由文图拉航空服务公司运营，该公司吹嘘其“拥有当今任何公务机中最宽敞的客舱之一”，并为乘客提供“卓越的客舱舒适度”。其网站显示，这架私人飞机每小时费用高达1.5万美元。
根据桑德斯的FEC备案文件，2025年他至少花费35.4万美元竞选资金通过文图拉喷气式飞机公司支付私人飞机服务费用。桑德斯使用竞选资金租用的其他私人飞机公司包括N-Jet和Cirrus航空服务公司。
N-Jet公司官网称，该公司以“个性化服务”为荣，补充说客户将“以奢华、舒适和安全为首要考虑，风度翩翩地抵达”。
桑德斯一直是《绿色新政》（一项针对碳排放和化石燃料生产的激进气候变化政策）的积极支持者，并将气候变化称为世界面临的“生存威胁”。去年，他的私人飞机使用情况受到质疑，他向福克斯新闻“特别报道”主持人布雷特·贝尔表示，“这是唯一的出行方式。”
“你开展竞选活动，一周要做三四五场集会。[这是]你能与3万人交流的唯一方式。你以为我会在联合航空公司排队，而3万人在等吗？”桑德斯说道。
“这是唯一的出行方式。对此毫无歉意。这就是竞选活动的出行方式。我们过去这么做，未来也会这么做。”
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桑德斯在竞选活动中使用私人飞机已有悠久历史。在他2020年总统竞选失败期间，桑德斯竞选团队花费超过190万美元用于私人飞机，其中包括阿波罗喷气式飞机公司和总部位于弗吉尼亚州的Advanced Aviation Team私人飞机公司。
私人飞机遭到桑德斯和奥卡西奥-科尔特斯的气候活动家同僚的谴责。根据2021年《运输与环境》报告，私人飞机的污染程度是商用飞机的14倍之多。
“说真的，这些首席执行官需要多少架私人飞机？这令人无法满足，不可接受。”奥卡西奥-科尔特斯在2023年的一次言论中，举例说明这位纽约女议员本人对私人飞机的抨击。
福克斯新闻数字版联系了桑德斯办公室及其竞选团队寻求置评，但未在出版前收到回应。
“你不觉得一个社会主义者会乘坐商业航班吗？”保守派政治传播顾问马特·戈尔曼打趣道。“没有比那些指责我们吃肉和使用燃气灶的自由派更虚伪的人了，他们自己却乘坐私人飞机。”
除了桑德斯与奥卡西奥-科尔特斯巡回活动期间巨额的私人飞机支出外，这位纽约民主社会主义者还在两人举办“打击寡头政治”巡回活动的州，花费大量竞选资金用于豪华酒店和“精品”酒店。
2026年1月1日，纽约市市政厅，纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯向人群挥手致意，此前佐兰·曼达尼（Zohran Mamdani）宣誓就任第112任市长。
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例如，根据4月25日提交的FEC文件，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯的竞选团队在图森市的一家精品高层建筑The Leo Kent酒店花费了3165.76美元，这与当时在该市举办的“打击寡头政治”集会时间相吻合。
2025年，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯还在盐湖城的Asher Adams酒店、伯灵顿的Vermont酒店、加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的The Langham-Huntington酒店、波多黎各圣胡安的Hotel El Convento酒店、弗吉尼亚州乡村的Lansdowne Resort & Spa等场所花费数千美元用于高端酒店住宿。
福克斯新闻数字版询问奥卡西奥-科尔特斯的代表，这位女议员是否觉得有必要解释她在2025年用于全国高端酒店的超过5.3万美元竞选支出，但未收到回应。
福克斯新闻的德德丽·希维（Deirdre Heavey）和安德鲁·马克·米勒（Andrew Mark Miller）提供了报道
福克斯新闻数字版的卡梅伦·考索恩（Cameron Cawthorne）、安德鲁·马克·米勒（Andrew Mark Miller）和德德丽·希维（此前）为本报道作出贡献。
FIRST ON FOX: 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.
In April, between stops on the tour, Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a photo of Sanders boarding a luxury Bombardier Challenger private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California. The source also indicated seeing the New York congresswoman boarding the private jet as well.
The pair were subsequently also seen in footage obtained by Fox News Digital exiting the plane in Sacramento later that evening, near where the self-identified democratic socialists hosted a second rally in one day.
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According to a photo captured by a source on the ground and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, Sanders boarded the luxury Bombardier Challenger private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, Calif., on Tuesday afternoon. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, whom the source also spotted boarding the private jet, spoke at their Fighting Oligarchy event in Bakersfield just hours before.
The Bombardier Challenger private jet the pair flew on was operated by Ventura Air Services, which touts “one of the widest cabins of any business jet available today” and provides “superior cabin comfort for its passengers.” According to its website, the private jet can cost up to $15,000 an hour.
In 2025, according to Sanders’ FEC filings, he spent at least $354,000 in campaign funds to pay for private jet services through Ventura Jets. The other private jet companies Sanders spent campaign funds on included N-Jet and Cirrus Aviation Services.
According to N-Jet’s website, the company prides itself on its “personal touch,” adding that customers will “arrive in style with your luxury, comfort and safety always top of mind.”
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.”
“You run a campaign, and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. [It is] the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. You think I’m gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United … while 30,000 people are waiting?” Sanders said.
“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.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., greet the crowd together during a Fighting Oligarchy tour event at Arizona State University March 20, 2025, in Tempe, Ariz.
Sanders has a long history of using private jets on the campaign trail. During his failed 2020 presidential campaign, the Sanders campaign spent over $1.9 million on private jets, including Apollo Jets and the Advanced Aviation Team, a Virginia-based private jet company.
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.
Fox News Digital reached out to Sanders’ office and his campaign for comment on the spending but did not receive a response in time for publication.
“You don’t expect a socialist to fly commercial do you?” quipped conservative political communications consultant Matt Gorman. “There’s no bigger hypocrite than the liberal who chastises us for eating meat and using gas stoves, yet flies in private jets.”
In addition to Sanders’ hefty private jet spending that came during his tour with AOC, the New York democratic socialist also spent big sums of campaign dollars at luxury and “boutique” hotels in states where the pair held their Fighting Oligarchy tour.
Rep. Alexandria Oacsio-Cortez, D-N.Y., waves to the crowd ahead of Zohran Mamdani ‘s inauguration as the 112th mayor at City Hall Jan. 1, 2026, in New York, NY.
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For example, AOC’s campaign paid The Leo Kent Hotel, a boutique high-rise in Tucson, $3,165.76, around the time of a Fighting Oligarchy rally that was held there, according to an FEC filing from April 25.
In 2025, AOC also spent thousands at luxury hotels like the Asher Adams Hotel in Salt Lake City, the Hotel Vermont in Burlington, The Langham-Huntington hotel in Pasadena, Calif., Hotel El Convento in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Lansdowne Resort & Spa in rural Virginia and others.
Fox News Digital asked representatives for AOC if the congresswoman felt like she needed to explain her more than $53,000 in campaign spending on upscale hotels across the country in 2025 but did not receive a response.
Fox News’ Deirdre Heavey and Andrew Mark Miller contributed reporting
Fox News Digital’s Cameron Cawthorne, Andrew Mark Miller and Deirdre Heavey (formerly) contributed to this report.