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    Pentagon Pete hat in einem milliardenschweren Kaufrausch ein Vermögen für Krabben verschwendet

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    4. Purify5 on

      > As Open the Books explained, the Pentagon tries to spend as much of its congressionally allocated budget as possible at the end of every fiscal year because of federal “use-it-or-lose-it” rules. If the department ends the year with leftover funds, it risks having its budget reduced the following year.

      It’s kinda insane that in this day and age this is still how budgeting is done at the US government.

      Quick guys we need to spend $15 million on rib-eye steak or they’re going to take „our“ money!

    7. brain_overclocked on

      >An analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books found that the department led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent more than $93 billion in September 2025, the end of the fiscal year, on various grants and contracts, the highest total since at least 2008.

      >Included in this spending was $2 million on Alaskan king crab last September alone, as well as $6.9 million on lobster tail and $1 million on salmon. The Defense Department also spent nearly $140,000 on doughnuts, $124,000 on ice cream machines, $26,000 on sushi preparation tables, and a whopping $15.1 million on ribeye steak.
      …
      This reportedly included spending $1.8 million on musical instruments, such as a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade Japanese flute.

      >The Pentagon found a way to spend more than $12,000 on fruit baskets, as well as a total of $3,160 on stickers featuring beloved children’s characters from *Dora the Explorer, Frozen, and Paw Patrol*. The department also spent $5.3 million on Apple devices, including purchasing 400 of the more expensive 512-gigabyte edition iPad Air M3s rather than cheaper models with less storage.
      …
      The data showed that the Defense Department spent more than $225 million on furniture, the highest level since 2014, including one chair that cost $1,844. Since 2008, the DOD has spent an average of $257.6 million on furniture every September.

    9. PastorNTraining on

      (Checks notes) oh the crabs from the sea not the kind you need a special comb and shampoo to get rid of.

      You never know with this lot.

    10. Happy_Feet333 on

      I’ve got a big bag of crabs here!

      I’m gunna to put them in my mouth… oh yeah!

      I’m gunna run around the town on a market day.

      Everyone will look at me and say… I’ve got a mouth full of crabs!

      [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jFTzhdZF4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jFTzhdZF4)

    11. veggiesama on

      I hope they left some crabs for me after I get drafted to fight in the Everwar.

    13. MasterK999 on

      We should get rid of the use-it-or-lose-it rules that encourage this wasteful spending.

      Departments that come in under budget should get small bonus paid to everyone in the department. Can you imagine the incentive effect if even 10% of $93 billion had been paid to DOD employees as a bonus?

    16. Exotic-Ferret-3452 on

      Oh… I thought they were going to say he blew above 0.08 and got crabs from one of his mistresses.

    17. teddytwelvetoes on

      same guy who wanted to install a $50,000 makeup studio at his workplace lol

    19. ilulillirillion on

      I just want healthcare. I’ve been working since I was 13 and have had one week long vacation and a month of combined leave when I was in the military.

      I just want to be able to take a break from working without me and my family fucking dying.

    20. GriffinFlash on

      „CRAB PEOPLE! CRAB PEOPLE! Look like crab, work in government like people!“

    22. Zulmoka531 on

      Remember folks, all us poors should be eating the bad cuts of meat and liver! Or a tortilla, twig of broccoli and a chicken tender.

    23. chpbnvic on

      Must be nice. Every second this administration is in office, they’re robbing us one way or another.

    24. purpleflowergang on

      They told us a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla should be sufficient for our daily peasant needs. Oh, and liver or whatever other cheap organ meats RFK Jr deems we’re worth.

    27. Glad-Process-3268 on

      This is just what they caught. The DoD has never passed an audit, and its budget goes up every year.

    34. availablelol on

      These idiots are blowing away all our tax dollars on stupid shit when healthcare is broken.

    35. neck_iso on

      As much as the impulse is to immediately bitch about this I know it’s common practice to splurge on big meals for soldiers:

      * when they are about to be deployed
      * during holidays when deployed etc.

      so I’m not going to _immediately_ bitch unless I hear further.

    37. mindovermatter421 on

      Maybe they need to find out where the crabs were shipped too and from and what else is shipped with it.

    38. washu_z on

      Reminder that DOGE abruptly discontinued USAID, which cost far less than half of this spending spree annually and benefited millions of the most vulnerable, desperate people on the planet, many of them children. It simultaneously benefited American farmers, helping to replace a good chunk of direct farm subsidies by providing government-sourced commodities demand/market.

      It was one of the greatest post-war humanitarian projects and a beacon of American prosperity, soft power, and committment to global human development.

      From 2001 to 2021, USAID programs were estimated to save between 4.1 and 4.7 million lives per year, including between 1.2 and 1.7 million children under five.

      When funding was abruptly cut by billionaire Elon Musk, hundreds of tons of food and nutritional supplements were left to rot while people literally starved.

      An estimated 800,000 people have died so far that otherwise would have lived had the program continued.

      When someone asks why I hate this admin more than my brain can even fucking stand most days I think of this. This one thing. But then it’s like multipled by hundreds of equally horrifying reasons.

      And most of the time it feels like no one bats an eye.

      “Let them eat crab.”

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