General Dynamics profits from immigration policy that separates children from families
So General Dynamics is another run-of-the-mill aerospace and defense contractor offering products and services in weapons, combat vehicles, aviation, and shipbuilding. But the company's IT unit engages in a service that isn't defense related: it aids the Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in coordinating placement of “unaccompanied minors” who have been separated from their families under Trump's immigration rules.
The company has been scrambling to mitigate the backlash of this, including this tweet (below) on what the company doesn't do within the profitable family separation protocol. The backlash hasn't abated, however, and even CEO Phebe Novakovic is on the receiving end of protests over her company's profiting from Trump's immigration policy.
But although General Dynamics' bevy of lobbyists includes two former aides to members of Trump's cabinet (William Smith and Arch Galloway), as well as members from his campaign and transition teams, Novakovic has her own frustrations with the Trump administration, as reported by Forbes: “Novakovic has expressed frustration at the Trump administration's slow pace in filling Pentagon positions, and she acknowledged in July that the delays are slowing down the process of contracts being approved and filled.”
She might also find fault with Trump because her political affiliation appears to be Democrat. Not only did she work in the Clinton Administration, but Wikileaks showed that Novakovic received emails going out to the Obama transition team in 2008, though she was never given a role.
In addition to working in the Department of Defense, Novakovic also worked as an operations officer for the CIA. And her husband, David Morrison, used to work on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Carla Anne Robbins, writing for Fortune Magazine, recounts a cozy story: “Some years ago, when [Novakovic] was working at General Dynamics but hadn’t yet ascended to the top role, a former company executive recalls, 'someone suggested we run an idea past David Morrison.' Morrison was then a top staffer on the House defense appropriations subcommittee, a powerful figure in defense contracting. 'Phebe said she would talk to him at dinner,' the former executive recalls.” (Novakovic's first husband, Michael Vickers, was Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.)
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