Let the Games Begin: Defense Contractors Meet With President Donald Trump

Defense Contractors Meet With President Donald Trump: “It’s a dance, you know, it’s a little bit of a dance,”…

Yesterday, key defense contractors and their government agency counterparts, assembled for the first time with President-elect Donald Trump.

As pointed out by Sundance over at Conservative Treehouse (Who I love reading btw), it cannot be overstated how fundamentally different this is for all parties involved - like out of this world different...

Lets face it, for the first time in their history, both sides are facing a President-elect without a single IOU on his desk from their large networked lobbying groups - and the scares the heck out of them...

For  both sides, the concept of prudent financial interest is at the forefront of the discussion - without a doubt...

For the first time in modern history, I think it is safe to assume that usually over spending government has a gatekeeper, and auditor of sorts…. 

His name is Donald J Trump - and that must be a really painful reality.

Read and watch and let it sink in:

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(Via Reuters) […]  The Republican met with Dennis Muilenburg of Boeing Co and Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin Corp at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where he is spending Christmas.

“Trying to get the costs down, costs. Primarily the (Lockheed Martin) F-35, we’re trying to get the cost down. It’s a program that’s very, very expensive,” Trump told reporters after meeting with the CEOs and a dozen Pentagon officials involved with defense acquisition programs who he said were “good negotiators.”

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has vowed to address government procurement costs as part of his industrial policy, which also includes taking a hard line on Chinese trade practices and renegotiating multilateral trade deals.

“It’s a dance, you know, it’s a little bit of a dance,” he said. “But we’re going to get the costs down and we’re going to get it done beautifully.”  (read more)

One of the meeting participants was none other then Boeing’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg, who took a shot across the financial bow from Trump earlier this month on the $4.2 billion cost for replacing a pair of Air Force One planes.

Muilenburg, who called the meeting “productive” and spoke admiringly of Trump’s “business head-set.”, seemed to have taken a different tone since the last time we heard from him...

As far a Trump was concerned: “we’re looking to cut a tremendous amount of money off the price,” pressin Muilenburg to give a “personal commitment” that costs would not run out of control - imagine that...

“We’re going to get it done for less than that, and we’re committed to working together to make sure that happens,” the CEO said.  

Watch:

So there you have it MAGA at its best...