Pentagon Regrets Taking Out Payday Loan for F-35

THE PENTAGON — Defense Department Comptroller Mike McCord has expressed regret with the Pentagon's decision to cover the spiraling cost-overruns of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with a payday loan, sources have learned.

"We had some trouble scraping together a few billion dollars to tide us over until the end of the Fiscal Year, and we thought we could g…