It is a bipartisan pass-time (not past-time, you must have been auto-corrected) to accuse the government of wasting money. And then forcing them to waste money

It is a bipartisan pass-time (not past-time, you must have been auto-corrected) to accuse the government of wasting money. And then forcing them to waste money by shifting their tasks and priorities followed by blaming them again for the waste. The military overspending was on hammers. And the politician forgot to mention that these were hammers for use in a munitions factory, where it was rather important that the hammer not generate even micro-sparks. The politician also didn't mention anything about government overspend on desks for senators. I'm sure his desk didn't come from Ikea, but somehow that wasn't a problem.