Pete Hegseth Spent Millions on Steak, Crab Legs and Lobster

 https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-spent-millions-steak-crab-legs-lobster-report-11658295

The Pentagon spent millions of dollars on luxury food items, consumer electronics and other discretionary purchases in the final month of the last fiscal year, according to a new analysis by government spending watchdog Open the Books.

The report found that the Department of Defense, headed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, spent $93.4 billion on grants and contracts in September 2025, the largest single‑month total ever recorded by any federal agency. 

As secretary of defense, Hegseth has publicly emphasized refocusing the department on core defense priorities and military readiness. But the data from Open the Books reveals that the Pentagon’s end‑of‑year spending reflected something quite different.