Embattled airplane maker and defense contractor the Boeing Company will lay off in excess of 2,000 workers at its Washington state facilities days before Christmas.

According to documents filed with the state labor department and first reported by Reuters, 2,199 workers will be permanently let go beginning on Dec. 20. It's part of a plan to eliminate more than 10% of the company's workforce that was announced in October.

A spokesperson for the Chicago-based company, which was long headquartered near its largest facilities in and around Seattle, told Scripps News, "We are adjusting our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and a more focused set of priorities. We are committed to ensuring our employees have support during this challenging time."

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The impacted employees will be paid through mid-January in order to adhere to labor laws requiring 60 days' notice to workers affected by mass layoffs, Reuters reported, citing union officials and workers who had received pink slips.

The layoffs include people at airplane plants in Washington state but also engineers and technicians not directly involved in making planes, according to Reuters.

The layoffs came just after the end of a nearly 2-month strike by 33,000 Boeing workers on the West Coast, and months of management shakeup and production restrictions due to safety problems uncovered following a blowout involving a door plug on a 737 MAX operated by Alaska Airlines.

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The company lost close to $6 billion including $5 billion in charges related to ongoing troubles during the three months ending September.

The layoffs may not put an end to Boeing's troubles, according to analysts from Morningstar Inc. Boeing and other airplane makers are expected to face tougher trade and regulatory environment worldwide in response to protectionist tariff policies expected under President-elect Donald Trump.

Americans broadly support several major changes to the Supreme Court proposed by President Biden and an are split on a controversial measure some in the Democratic Party have advocated.

The proposals favored by Biden prohibiting conflicts of interest, adopting a formal ethics code, and imposing term limits or a retirement age  drew support from as much as 82% of the population.

Each of those proposals drew majorities of those identifying themselves Democrats, Republican or independents in the poll with the most popular proposal among all groups being a ban on conflicts of interest.

The poll was released Thursday by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Meanwhile, so-called court packing increasing the number of justices to allow Biden or his successor to appoint several justices was favored by just 29% of the population. Even among Democrats, the proposal was supported by fewer than half of respondents.

Democrats were most likely to support each of the proposals, and both Democrats and independents were more likely to support reforms the more they knew about basic civics questions like what rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Republicans were less likely to support changes and the greater their knowledge of civics, the more they were likely to oppose reforms.

"This should be extremely worrying for members of the Supreme Court. The court's independence has long been sustained by its strong bipartisan support in the public. If that vanishes, the court may find itself reformed or constrained in ways that weaken its power," said Annenberg professor Matt Levendusky in a statement.

The poll of 1,590 U.S. adults was taken on behalf of Annenberg by research firm SSRS in May. It had a margin of error of 3.3%.

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