re: Federal government spends $4.6M on crab and lobster tails in a month

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Some of the additional wasteful government spending Opens a New Window. ran the gamut, here's a look...

Workout and Recreation Equipment: $9.8 million
iPhones and iPads: $7.7 million
Musical Equipment: $1.7 million
Golf Carts: $673,471
Booz: $308,994
China Tableware: $53,004
Wexford Leather Club Chair: $9,241

Federal agencies scrambled to use what is left in their annual budget by September 2018 to ensure that Congress Opens a New Window. doesn’t appropriate less money in the next year.

“More than half of [the spending] was in the last week,” Andrzejewski said on “Bulls & Bears Opens a New Window. .” “Incredibly, one out of every ten contracts procured during the entire year was spent in the last week.”

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