Military-industrial complex captured US Congress

The military-industrial complex has captured the US Congress, which hardly even tries to resist funding waste and fraud by weapons companies.

I am all in favor of spending government funds to make jobs in the US, but which jobs should they be? Any job will support a worker, if its wages are decent. So let's choose the jobs that also produce things that the US needs or that Americans can use.

Congress resists spending money on cancel all student debts, but it has poured the same amount of money into the failing F-35 without hesitating.

Why the difference? One can guess that Congress values the military-industrial complex more than mere people.