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“At a projected total lifecycle cost of over $2 trillion dollars, the F-35 is the largest program in DoD history despite routinely not meeting cost, schedule, and performance metrics…This is unacceptable program execution and Congress should not reward this behavior by buying additional aircraft above the President’s budget request.”

— House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), on the new F-35s the House’s FY 2025 Defense Spending bill would procure.

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