From PBS NewsHour.

The Pentagon spent over $500 billion in fiscal year 2025, and $93 billion of that spending was in September alone.

The last month of the fiscal year for the government is September, a time when agencies across the government race to use up the rest of their annual budgets.

These spending sprees sometimes include questionable purchases, like the Pentagon’s purchase of $12,000 three-tiered fruit stands and $2 million worth of Alaskan King Crab.

PBS News’ Cecilia Lallmann breaks down what Open the Books, a government watchdog nonprofit, found in the Pentagon’s September 2025 purchases.

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