CNN contributor Paul Begala absurdly claimed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally blew $15 million on ribeye steak and $6.9 million on lobster tail in September 2025, as part of a $93.4 billion Pentagon end-of-fiscal-year “use-it-or-lose-it” spending surge flagged by watchdog Open the Books.
Scott Jennings mocked this absurd claim, noting, “He can’t eat 6.9 million dollars of lobster himself… internet, do something”). Conservatives rightly blasted this as dishonest media smears: the meals were traditional morale-boosting “steak and lobster” dinners for troops before deployments, a decades-old military tradition.
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