Actually, there are more rotten eggs to be paid for - another $30 billion in procurement for a couple-hundred-more F-35Bs, maybe twice that in through-life support.
And it's hardly axe-grinding to observe that we knew almost six years ago that the F-35B was no Harrier, and knew what its exhaust would do to any surface. The Marines and Lockheed Martin responded then by lying.
The current Marine "doctrine" (the Marines define "doctrine" as "fictional processes that justify major defense programs") calls for the F-35B force to hop from one M-FARP to another every 72 hours or so, to avoid SRBM attacks. Not so easy to do when it takes 17 days of
s-out effort to build a simple landing pad.