Meadows: White House Looking at More Executive Actions

The White House is "looking very closely" at a number of executive actions aimed at keeping the economy going, including determining if an order can be made to prevent airlines from furloughing and laying off workers, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday. 

"The president has been very clear, in fact, I met with him on this very subject yesterday very late," Meadows said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." "He wants to do whatever he can do to get things done. He's tasked Secretary [Steven] Mnuchin and I to get as creative as we can within the confines of the law to put forth as much money to make sure that we keep this economy going."

President Donald Trump, he added, was the "one individual" who worked for a solution after talks for the fifth coronavirus stimulus package broke down, "whether it was with enhanced unemployment or any of the other issues that we looked at, it was through executive orders. This president said, 'When Congress is not going to act, I'm going to.' That still remains on the table and we are looking for a number of options." 

Meadows also discussed the push for a coronavirus vaccine, noting that Operation Warp Speed is taking "unprecedented action" to bring the vaccine to hundreds of millions of people before the end of the year and that there are "multiple candidates going through phase three clinical trials at this point."

And that has nothing to do with an Election Day deadline as it has to do with any other date, said Meadows. 

"We're trying to make sure that what we do is get a vaccine to the American people as quickly as possible and whether it comes out before the election or before the end of the year, it will come out in record time, and it's all about trying to help the American people as quickly as we can. This president has been very clear. Get a vaccine, get therapeutics, get it to the American people so we can get back to normal," Meadows said.

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