The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can

Money printer go brrr for the military-industrial complex, which uses 0.01% of the money to lobby for more.
It’s a racket.

We've been hearing stuff like this since Regan. It is most notably done to hide classified defense spending but can be done for other reasons.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission
• From 1998: https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the-600-hammer/5271/