Pete Hegseth‘s Protection Division blew by way of tens of billions in a single month … together with large splurges on steak, lobster, crab, fruit baskets, and furnishings.
The Pentagon went on an epic spending spree in September 2025 by burning by way of $93 billion … essentially the most on the finish of a fiscal yr since 2008 … all a part of the federal authorities’s use-it-or-lose-it funds.
Hegseth’s DOD wanted to spend the cash to maintain their present funding shifting ahead … and he signed off on $6.9 million for lobster tail, $2 million for Alaskan king crab, $15.1 million for ribeye steak, $1 million for salmon, nearly $140K for donuts, and $124K for ice cream machines.
The Pentagon dropped $225 million on furnishings … together with $12,000 for fruit basket stands.
Beneath Hegseth, the DOD additionally blew almost $6 billion on info know-how … together with $3.5 billion for cable TV. One other $5.3 million was spent on Apple units, with $4 million going in direction of Samsung units.
And, get this … $1.8 million was spent on musical devices … together with almost $99K for a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Power Chief of Employees’s residence, $26K for a violin, and $21,750 for a hand-crafted Japanese flute.
Hegseth’s Division additionally spent over $50 billion within the final 5 days of September on grants and contracts. Nevertheless, they did discover some cuts not too long ago, like lowering Senator Mark Kelly‘s army pay.