Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Marillyn Hewson met with President-elect Trump in New York, Jan. 13. Lockheed Martin estimates the program accounts for 38,900 jobs in Texas, and the plane’s supply chain touches 45 states. Voices on both sides of the political aisle criticized the F-35 program’s cost long before Trump took up the issue. “Many of our allies have bet their air superiority on the F-35 program, and it bonds us tightly together with them,” he said during a hearing on his nomination this week. “The president-elect has talked about the cost of [the F-35], but he has in no way shown a lack of support for the program.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2017 20:04 UTC