There are no lack of spending for schools and housing and infrastructure and welfare.

15% of federal spending is for defense, of which F-35 spending is part of.

To compare, 22% is for social security, 14% is for health, 10% is for medicare, 3% is for education. Note that this is federal, most of education spending is at state and local level.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

My city (NYC) alone spends $31.5 BN per year for preK-12 education [1]. NYC's population is 8.15 million, or less than 2.5% the population of the entire country.

For $30 BN/year the entire country gets 5th generation gets that are by far the best in the world, and for $31.5 BN a single city gets to fund its public education with results that are (maybe) average for the OECD countries.

[1] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/spotlight-school-budget-...

Spending it on this is basically that, just one step removed