In Independence Day (1996), as President Thomas Whitemore and company are being led into the secret government alien lab, he wonders aloud where the funding for

In Independence Day (1996), as President Thomas Whitemore and company are being led into the secret government alien lab, he wonders aloud where the funding for the lab came from, to which Julius Levinson (the father of Jeff Goldblum's character) quips, "You didn't think they actually paid $5000 for a hammer, or $30,000 for a toilet seat, did you?" Indicating those sums were actually being secretly diverted to fund black-budget initiatives like the alien lab. Nice to see truth is not that far off from Independence Day.