August 26, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
White House chief of staff says additional executive actions are in the works as airline furloughs loom
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Wednesday that the administration is eyeing executive action to prevent airline furloughs in absence of a deal with Congress on new coronavirus relief legislation.
Meadows’s comments in a Politico Live event came a day after American Airlines said it would furlough or lay off some 19,000 workers starting in October unless the federal government steps in with billions more in relief for struggling airlines.
Delta also intends to furlough nearly 2,000 pilots effective Oct. 1, according to the pilots’ union.
By Erica Werner, Lori Aratani and Jeff Stein
