Hegseth Spent Billions On Lobster Tails, Recliners And Other Luxuries
Those DOGE bros snooping through our private data have somehow missed whopping amounts of wasteful spending by Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense. The former weekend TV host likes to preen as the “Secretary of War” but he might be better described as the Secretary of Unnecessary and Frivolous Spending.
A shocking new analysis from government watchdog Open the Books found Hegseth’s department went on a $93 billion spending spree last year. That’s more money than it spent in any other year since 2008, The New Republic noted, but a lot of that money was spent on non-military items that most of us can only dream of affording.
Apparently, Whiskey Pete thinks it’s OK to spend $6.9 million on lobster tails, $2 million for Alaskan king crab, and $15.1 million for ribeye steak, just in September. Open the Books pointed out that “Fortune magazine recently declared that king crab has taken caviar’s place as the ‘hottest luxury ingredient.’”