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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab

The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.
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In a single month, Pete Hegseth spent $93B on furniture, steak, lobster, and a $98k piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home.

The Pentagon went on a massive end-of-year spending spree in September 2025, blowing through $93 billion in a single month—the most September spending since at least 2008.
  • $93 billion spent in September alone.
  • $50.1 billion of that was spent in the final five days of the fiscal year.
  • That single-month spending is larger than the entire annual military budgets of some countries.

Luxury food​

  • $15.1 million on ribeye steak.
  • $6.9 million on lobster tail.
  • $2 million on Alaskan king crab.
  • $124,000 for ice-cream machines.
  • $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.
  • Meanwhile, they want to cut benefits to roughly 42 million people in the U.S. basic food program from SNAP.
  • In addition to SNAP, 7 million mothers and children faced potential disruptions to the WIC program.

Furniture spending spree​

The Pentagon spent $225 million on furniture in 2025, the most in over a decade.
  • $12,000 on fruit basket stands.
  • Over $60,000 on Herman Miller recliners.

Luxury purchases and gadgets​

  • $98,329 Steinway grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home.
  • $5.3 million on Apple devices like iPads.
 
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Imagine killing your spouse, and then making bank writing a children’s book about grief. I guess, for her, it’s an unhappy ending, to say nothing of her slain husband.

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