Biden Charging Secret Service Rent

Jim McElhatton at The Washington Times:

Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront home he owns in a Wilmington, Del., suburb.

I don’t know if there’s any sort of precedent for this. Maybe he’s not the first Vice President to charge the Secret Service rent. Either way, this has the appearance of blatant hubris. I know $13,000 is a drop in the bucket for Biden, and makes no difference to our national budget, but it just plain looks bad. $13,000 is a lot of money to most Americans. I’d like to know: Why, Biden? What’s the point?