Evening Edition: Shutdown Begins to Affect Government Agencies

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

President Trump says the government shutdown is threatening food benefits for millions that use food stamps. Also, TSA callouts are mounting which is expected to cause heavy delays as holiday travel begins to surge. Democrats have said they would not accept any federal funding bill that does not also include an extension of Obamacare subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic and Republicans argue Obamacare has failed to reduce the deficit saying its costs have skyrocketed. Meanwhile, a pardoned January 6th rioter was arrested for threatening House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. FOX’s Ryan Schmelz speaks with Chad Pergram, FOX News Senior Congressional Correspondent, who says things will change when members of Congress themselves start being affected. 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 Bill Hemmer.
0:04.2	I'm Janice Dean.
0:05.1	I'm Juan Williams, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:11.2	Monday, October 27, 2025.
0:15.1	I'm Ryan Schmels.
0:16.6	The government shutdown drags on as a major union representing federal workers
0:20.7	is calling on Congress to reopen the government now.
0:24.0	These shutdowns, when it starts to affect the individual members, that's when they start to pay attention.
0:28.9	Number one, they're going to hear from constituents, be it farmers, service members, snap benefit people, whatever.
0:35.5	Okay, that's number one.
0:36.7	Number two, if they can't make their flight,
0:39.1	okay, that's going to be a problem. This is the Fox News Rundown, evening edition.
0:53.2	The government shutdown is the both sides still dug in.
0:58.0	Republicans are hoping to put pressure on Democrats to reopen the government,
1:01.8	needing just eight to break the filibuster on a stopgat measure that would fund the government until late November.
1:07.6	The GOP may have gotten help from the president of the American Federation of Government
1:11.5	employees, which represents over 800,000 federal workers who called on Congress to pass a clean
1:17.5	continuing resolution, saying, quote, no half measures and no gamesmanship put every single
1:23.7	federal worker back on the job with full back pay today. What kind of effect could that
1:28.8	demand make on negotiations? That's unknown right now because, again, obviously Democrats have
1:34.8	been tightly aligned with the labor movement. We're speaking to Fox's senior congressional correspondent,
1:39.7	Chad Pergram. This association of labor employees, they represent about 800,000 of the 1.4 million federal
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