Letter: Waste, fraud and abuse
The Trump Administration started out his second term by creating a fake department called the “Department of Government Efficiency” to root out waste, fraud and abuse. Unfortunately, the Department of Defense is the poster child for all three!
According to Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson, in her Substack Letters from an American column, the Department of Defense decided to spend the entirety of the defense budget, rather than lose it. Pentagon officials bought “a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon — the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.”
I just do not get it!