They mean total program costs, because there will be over 2000 F-35s and only 182 F-22s.
Doesn’t matter anyway. The Obama/Democrat plan was always to first kill the F-22 using the F-35-as-better option and once the F-22 was dead to go after the F-35. Totally emasculating the military capability of the United States so that it can’t do mischief in the world is their dogma.
You would think with all the spending and debt these programs would be small potatoes in the budget, but killing all our weapons replacement and modernization outweighs that for these people.
Next year the INTEREST on the debt will be greater than the defense budget.
Yeah I know - it was kinda a rethorical question anyway.