The Biden administration shelled out hundreds of dollars to provide the U.S. Navy with a luxury bidet following a report detailing how the maritime service branch allegedly lacks resources, records show.
The Navy spent $553 with the company Bio Bidet for a BB-1000 bidet seat attachment for a toilet on a fast transport ship called the USNS Yuma, according to a December 2021 requisition order first obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. But just months prior, a report found the Navy’s lack of leadership and resources made it unprepared for future conflicts.
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“Taxpayers often complain of their dollars being flushed down the toilet; now we’re paying for the Pentagon’s brass to get doused by a bidet. It’s a great example of the target-rich environment within the defense budget for wasteful spending,” Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of the taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks, told the Washington Examiner.
A bidet, which is a bowl meant to be sat on in order to wash someone’s backside, is highly uncommon in the U.S. An April Bio Bidet survey found that 82% of Americans have never owned one and 71% have never used one.
The $553 BB-1000 bidet is equipped with a remote control, deodorizer, blow dryer, heated seat, and numerous spray controls, such as “turbo wash” and a “pulsating massage,” according to a Bio Bidet brochure. The bidet has an “effective enema function” and is said by the retailer Bidet King to have a “rapid cult following” since it comes with “the absolute strongest spray pressure of any electronic bidet seat on the market.”
The Navy’s bidet purchase came after a July report commissioned by GOP lawmakers found 94% of sailors interviewed think the service branch lacks leadership.
Notably, the report found that the Navy had minimal resources for maintenance and shipbuilding.
“Perhaps the most concerning comment and consistent observation amongst interviewees was that the service does not promote or advance surface ship warfighting in a meaningful way,” the report said. Finding and sinking enemy fleets should be the principal purpose of a Navy.”
“But many sailors found their leadership distracted, captive to bureaucratic excess, and rewarded for the successful execution of administrative functions rather than their skills as a warfighter,” the report continued.
It remains unclear whether the bidet is actively being used aboard the USNS Yuma. The Military Sealift Command, a group overseeing Navy ships, confirmed to the Free Beacon that the Navy did, in fact, purchase the BB-1000.
Ships like the USNS Yuma tend to hold a crew of 26 civilian mariners, according to the Navy. Bathrooms on ships tend to be relatively basic, and a 2020 government watchdog report that included information on sewage systems and toilets on Navy ships did not mention bidets.
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“Now we can add fancy European-style bathroom amenities to a growing list of taxpayer abuses,” added Andrzejewski.
The Navy did not respond to a request for comment.
