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Speaker 1: Okay, So there was an article that came out and

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Speaker 1: it claims that the Department of Defense Department of War,

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Speaker 1: led by Pete Hegseth, spent ninety three billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: September a loan on contracts and grants. But it's the

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Speaker 1: list of items that is really going to make it angry.

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Speaker 1: Two million dollars on Alaskan kingkrab, six point nine million

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Speaker 1: dollars on lobster tail, fifteen point one million dollars on

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Speaker 1: Revi steak. You have one hundred and twenty four thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars spent for ice cream machines, and over one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty nine thousand dollars for two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: two orders of doughnuts. A lot of groups are saying

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Speaker 1: that this is just year end budget practices, because this

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Speaker 1: is a use it or lose it situation. They've got

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Speaker 1: money in the budget. If they don't spend it, they're

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Speaker 1: not going to get it next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't look good for Pete Heggseth when you've

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Speaker 2: got him spending millions of dollars on lobster sales. But

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Speaker 2: the real source of the problem here is the fact

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Speaker 2: that the government does not do zero based budgeting. If

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Speaker 2: you don't know what that is. Most of the corporate world,

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Speaker 2: when you're doing budgets, they say, okay, you're gonna start

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Speaker 2: at zero. You got to prove to me why you

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Speaker 2: need this money. But in most levels of government, and

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Speaker 2: I can tell you it happens at the state government

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Speaker 2: as well. Right here in Indiana. The way they budget is, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we gave you a million dollars for this last year,

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Speaker 2: but you only spent five hundred thousand this year. So

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Speaker 2: when we do the budget next year, we're only giving

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Speaker 2: you five hundred thousand. That is a disastrous way to budget.

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately that's the way most government in this country budgets.

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Speaker 2: And so you have these governments just wasting your tax

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Speaker 2: dollars because they're afraid they're not going to get that

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Speaker 2: money back next year if they don't spend it this year.

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Speaker 2: It is insane that that's the way we do our

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Speaker 2: budgeting in this country. And like I said, it happens

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Speaker 2: also here in Indiana with our state dollars.

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Speaker 1: So September, what they end up doing is just blowing

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Speaker 1: it all out so they can make sure that it's

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Speaker 1: it's on the it's on the budget for next year.

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Speaker 1: It's forcing these agencies to blow through all of this

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Speaker 1: money instead of saving it. So some other things that

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Speaker 1: were purchased. Two hundred and twenty five million dollars spent

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Speaker 1: on furniture overall, twelve five hundred and forty dollars on

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Speaker 1: decorative fruit basket stands, sixty thousand dollars on Herman Miller chairs.

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Speaker 1: You had ninety eight thousand dollars spent for a Steinway

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Speaker 1: Grand piano at an Air Force leader's residence. Some muckety

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Speaker 1: muck got a really really fancy piano. Also twenty one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars for a custom Japanese flute of flute.

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Speaker 2: Guys, it sounds stupid when you say it out loud.

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Speaker 2: Now I'll give you a brea. It sounds stupid when

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Speaker 2: you write it down to This reminds me of that

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Speaker 2: movie from the eighties Brewsters Millions. You remember that Richard Pryor.

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Speaker 2: He gets this inheritance, but he has to find a

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Speaker 2: way to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days, and

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Speaker 2: so he's just blowing it on whatever he can find

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Speaker 2: so he can get the big inheritance. After that This

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Speaker 2: is exactly like. This is the government version of Brewsters Millions.

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Speaker 1: This definitely contra Predict's promise to reduce government waste.