Late-Night Jabs Target Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Spending Spree
Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert mocked Pete Hegseth’s reported Pentagon spending spree, citing an Open the Books scorecard that the Department spent around $93 billion in September on luxury items (lobster tails, ribeye, donuts, ice cream machines) and furniture, and quipping about hawkish policies and how a Democrat might react to even bigger spending—tying the humor to concerns about wasteful government expenditures.