Trump Summons Contractors to Mar-a-Lago Over Spending
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President-elect Donald Trump, left, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, pauses as he takes a question from a member of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 21, 2016.
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The two largest U.S. defense contractors said Wednesday they would seek to control their costs after President-elect Donald Trump summoned them and a bevy of top Pentagon officials to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to discuss military spending.
“We’re trying to get costs down, costs,” Trump told reporters in brief remarks outside the resort after the officers departed. “Primarily the F-35. That program is very, very expensive.”