WASHINGTON—Federal bureaucrats spent more than $97 billion just before the end of the 2018 fiscal year, not on much-needed high priority items, but $4.6 million for such luxuries as lobster and crab, $1.2 million to sponsor the Professional Bull Riders LLC, and $53,004 for fine china tableware.
“Billion-dollar binge-buying is no way to budget,” according to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who recently introduced a measure designed to end “use it or lose it” government purchases in the last two months of a fiscal year.
