"Envious foreigners may wish for the demise of the F-35, but their hopes are forlorn and futile".
Jingoism < Fiscal reality
The probability of the program's "demise" is still small - but the probability that the program on paper today - all three versions reaching a combined production rate of 200+/year - will become concrete reality is also small.
The aircraft is more expensive than predicted, and budgets are tighter than predicted. Dicks can spout all he wants, but the only way to preserve the F-35 program of record is to ring-fence defense from the rest of the budget, and to ring-fence F-35 within it.