An interesting option would be to look into the F-22 Raptor. It's currently banned for sale by US Congress, but they previously considered selling them to Japan and Australia.
At ~175 million per unit, 65 of them would cost 11.4B. I'm obviously no expert on aircraft procurement, but 4.6B set aside for maintenance would keep us to the original 16B budget for the F-35.
Obviously the Americans could refuse to sell it, or raise the unit price, but it should be something the government looks into, even briefly.
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