Like a boss: Bernie 'Living Wage' Sanders cuts hundreds from campaign staff

Brett T. | 5:10 PM on April 27, 2016

On his campaign website, alongside his proposal for a national $15 an hour minimum wage, Bernie Sanders lays out in detail his proposed Rebuild America Act, a $1 trillion investment in modernizing America’s infrastructure that he estimates will create 13 million good-paying jobs.

Unfortunately for hundreds of his campaign staff, they’re going to need those good-paying jobs that aren’t going to materialize under a President Sanders.

.@BernieSanders to cut hundreds from staff. Focus much of his remaining effort on winning California. https://t.co/JrMgTfdEmo

— Anthony DeRosa? (@Anthony) April 27, 2016

Sanders campaign is letting go field staff in states that already voted…rather than shifting them forward to next states. 1/2

— Tamara Keith (@tamarakeithNPR) April 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/725426205776863232

whoa. Bernie reveals to @Yamiche that he's laying off "hundreds" off staffers https://t.co/8rNerbW6ZJ

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) April 27, 2016

With paid leave I hope https://t.co/RDT9b8wRIr

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 27, 2016

@jmartNYT @nytpolitics @Yamiche guess he was feeling the burn of losing

— DK (@dkalles8) April 27, 2016

New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor writes Wednesday afternoon that Sanders doesn’t see the value in maintaining a national staff when “40 of the states are now behind us.”

Bernie Sanders will cut hundreds of staff members and turn to California https://t.co/kuC4e4VoJn via @Yamiche pic.twitter.com/zjqX1EgU0C

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) April 27, 2016

“We don’t need people right now in Connecticut. That election is over,” Sanders said. “We don’t need them in Maryland. So what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff.”