Lockheed Martin, the multinational protection and aerospace agency, is among the newest massive companies to donate one million {dollars} to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.
Recent main donors embody Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Amazon, Apple’s Tim Cook, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
Lockheed dedicated the cash Dec. 2. But it 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 price greater than $110 billion. Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet reported $67.6 billion in web gross sales for 2023. The firm 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 response to individuals acquainted with the matter.
Inaugural committee organizers are planning donor occasions, starting with a Jan. 18 reception on the National Gallery of Art. Donors will be capable of hobnob with incoming Cabinet members and attend a black-tie dinner with Vice President-elect JD Vance, in response to a schedule reviewed by CBS News.
Trump is planning a rally at Capital One Arena the day earlier than the inauguration. He’ll then head to what’s being billed as a candlelight dinner on the National Building Museum.
After the swearing-in on Jan, Trump, the vice chairman, the Cabinet, members of Congress — and donors — are anticipated at The Starlight Ball at Union Station.
