Lockheed-Martin donates $1 million to Trump inaugural committee

Lockheed Martin, the multinational protection and aerospace agency, is likely one of the newest massive companies to donate 1,000,000 {dollars} to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. 

Current main donors embody Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Amazon, Apple’s Tim Cook dinner, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. 

Lockheed dedicated the cash Dec. 2. But it surely additionally donated $1 million to each Trump’s inaugural committee in 2017 and President Joe Biden’s inaugural in 2020. 

As of Friday, the corporate was value greater than $110 billion. Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet reported $67.6 billion in web gross sales for 2023. The corporate offers virtually completely in authorities protection contracts.

It engaged closely with the primary Trump administration — Ivanka Trump visited Lockheed Martin’s Colorado workplaces with then-CEO Marillyn Hewson as a part of a deal with apprenticeships in 2019. 

The inaugural committee has introduced in additional than $170 million — all the cash it must run the receptions, dinners, and galas that may accompany the Jan. 20 swearing in. Donors nonetheless seeking to give have been directed to fill the coffers of Trump-allied tremendous PACs, in line with folks accustomed to the matter.

Inaugural committee organizers are planning donor occasions, starting with a Jan. 18 reception on the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork. Donors will be capable to hobnob with incoming Cupboard members and attend a black-tie dinner with Vice President-elect JD Vance, in line with a schedule reviewed by CBS Information.

Trump is planning a rally at Capital One Area the day earlier than the inauguration. He’ll then head to what’s being billed as a candlelight dinner on the Nationwide Constructing Museum.

After the swearing-in on Jan, Trump, the vice chairman, the Cupboard, members of Congress — and donors — are anticipated at The Starlight Ball at Union Station.