From expenditures made by the U.S. Department of Defense in September 2025, the final month of its fiscal year, during which it spent $93.4 billion, 152 percent more than it had, on average, in the preceding eleven months. These figures were tabulated by Jeremy Portnoy at the nonprofit watchdog organization Open the Books.
|
Missiles |
$8,523,839,979 |
|
Bombs and explosives |
$1,061,726,930 |
|
Guns |
$214,546,087 |
|
Lobster-tail |
$6,919,553 |
|
Alaskan king crab |
$2,019,613 |
|
Golf carts |
$1,031,215 |
|
Peanut butter |
$457, 438 |
|
Calculators |
$379,897 |
|
iPad Airs with M3 chips |
$315,200 |
|
Staplers |
$200,269 |
|
Donuts |
$139,224 |
|
Ice-cream machines |
$124,009 |
|
Footrests |
$111,742 |
|
A Steinway & Sons grand piano |
$98,329 |
|
A Miss Humblebee’s Academy subscription |
$65,640 |
|
A JSTOR subscription |
$60,444 |
|
Herman Miller recliners |
$60,719 |
|
A custom handmade flute from Japan |
$21,750 |
|
Fruit basket stands |
$12,000 |
|
ChapStick and lip balm |
$8,664 |
|
Cookies and cream ice cream |
$7,411 |
|
Dora the Explorer stickers |
$315 |
