Evening Edition: A Look At The U.S. Economy Following The Shutdown

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

President Trump signed the bill to reopen the government this week, once again supplying food stamp benefits for millions and paychecks to federal workers. Now, the Trump Administration is weighing a number of strategies to try and improve the economy. Inflation looks to a have gone down but the jobs market is developing into a hard place to navigate. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Gary Kaltbaum, President Of Kaltbaum Capital Management and FOX Business Network Contributor, who says he has some concerns about the job market but is always confident in American economic resilience. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Ainslie Your Heart. I'm Charles Payne. I'm Martha McCallum and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.6	Thursday, November 13th, 2025. I'm John Sossier. The government shutdown may be over, but are the
0:15.4	economic problems just beginning? The congressional budget office is warning that the nation's
0:20.4	gross domestic product
0:21.4	could take a big hit as companies face uncertainty ahead. If the job market withers, what you
0:26.9	have to start worrying about is the consumer, which is consumer spending, which is 70-some-odd percent
0:33.3	of the economy. And if that ends up the case, then we have some trouble.
0:39.3	This is the Fox News Rundout, evening edition.
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1:18.9	finally over. Now what? Thousands of federal workers have gone without pay. Investors have been
1:24.1	in the dark about economic reporting and the stock market has taken a sharp downturn this month.
1:28.8	One of the biggest parts of the economy is travel, and even a 5% drop in travel could have a marked negativity on it.
1:39.6	We're speaking today with Gary Kaupom, the president of Kaupom Capital Management, Fox Business Network contributor, and he has his own nationally syndicated radio show, Investors Edge.
1:48.4	I'm very careful about people coming out with numbers like that. What I can tell you,
1:54.4	if I'm worried about anything, it's the job market. And if the job market withers,
2:02.5	what you have to start worrying about is the consumer which is consumer spending which is 70 some odd percent of the economy
2:08.2	and if that ends up the case then we have some trouble I think past GDP looks okay I think
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