They already wasted $500M in loss of perishable goods. So a "saving" of -$492 million so far.

No, because the $8M was allocated by a coequal branch of government. The president gets to veto things at that stage, not afterward.

Should the president have an ex post facto veto for everything? That sounds more like an autocracy to me.

The ends don't justify the means in a Constitutional Republic

Tens of thousands of jobs lost. Inflation rising steadily.

Hundreds of thousands of poor affected. Pregnant and disabled people in real danger due to cutting health program funding throughout the country.

The closest 2 neighbors on the verge of declaring the United States not longer an 'ally'.

But yeah, $8M is $8M.