Sanders gets another extension for personal financial disclosure

The Bernie Sanders campaign was granted another 45-day extension on filing personal financial disclosure reports, putting the presidential candidate’s new deadline after the Democratic National Convention next month. 

{mosads}In the request sent Thursday to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Brad Deutsch, legal counsel for the campaign, said Sanders’s campaign schedule and officeholder duties are “good cause” for an extension.  

The Center for Public Integrity’s Dave Levinthal first reported the extension, tweeting an image of the letter to the FEC as well as reporting the agency accepted the candidate’s request.

That follows another 45-day extension the campaign received in April, when it cited the same reasons in a request to the FEC. 

“As the senator has noted, Jane does their taxes, and they’ve been a tad bit busy,” campaign spokeswoman Symone Sanders told The Hill in April. 

The extension will bump the deadline to the middle of August, more than two weeks after the Democrats hold their nominating convention. 

There, Hillary Clinton will likely receive the party’s nomination for president, but Sanders has not suspended his campaign or endorsed the former secretary of State. 

Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said a few weeks ago Sanders has no plans to drop out “today, or tomorrow, or the next day” and plans to stay in the race until the convention next month. 

The Sanders and Clinton campaigns have met several times since she became the party’s presumptive nominee earlier this month. Sanders has said he is seeking middle ground on issues including the minimum wage, campaign finance reform and higher education.

Last week Sanders said he would likely vote for Clinton in November.