vudukungfu: Don't fark with the democracy we laid down lives for.
This company's president should be in prison
Now

And in the 1700s he would have been horsewhipped in public.

No, that would be no better than the political retribution bullshiat he's pulling. However maybe, just maybe, a competitor would like to open a local facility and would like some federal tax credits.

qorkfiend: "Beginning in late 2020 or early 2021"

In other words, before the evil Biden administration even has a chance to take office? One suspects the impending layoffs aren't actually due to hypothetical cuts in military spending which wouldn't even materialize until 2022 at the earliest.

One of my clients is a decent sized defense contractor, well one of its wholly owned subsidiaries is anyway. They don't worry about the political party in power because neither really cuts down the military budget. They change priorities a little bit, but the hardware is the same in any case. The CIO of the company, a reasonably decent fellow, noted the only thing that really changes is the delivery schedule. Oh, and he notes that sometimes the cyclical swings are a bit smaller under democratic administrations. You don't get wild profits, but you don't have the risk of YUUGGGEEEE losses either. So the stability makes some planning easier. That being said, they're not big fans of Trump. Too much volatility, too many changes with classic allies making things a complete clusterfark.

Of course they don't pull this shiat at all, with employees, because they're not idijits.