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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has finally ended after weeks of partisan deadlock, primarily over Obamacare. With the shutdown now over, what are the next steps for Congress and the administration? Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. What did Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gain from shutting down the government, and what are the broader economic impacts? The U.S. reportedly lost about $56 billion during the shutdown. Steve also weighs in on inflation, attributing much of the current rise to the Biden administration.

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0:35.8	Now, 710 WOR presents the Marksomo show. Well, hey, shutdown shutdown is over we'll go over the details we get to the
0:42.5	epstein files and the hoax that's taking place we'll get to uh chuck schumer we'll get to
0:48.5	uh bruce blakman we'll get to um mom donnie there's uh more to learn about this guy
0:54.1	uh it's not good it's not There's more to learn about this guy. It's not good. It's not good.
0:56.7	Lots to talk about today. So the shutdown was the longest in history, 43 days. A year from now, nobody will remember it.
1:05.6	Longest one before that was 35 days. That was in the first Trump term. Nobody remembers that. The shutdown ended.
1:13.2	Trump was at a big dinner last night, business leaders, dinner in the east room. The White House
1:21.4	big dinner taken place. But while that dinner was going on, the vote took place. They ended the
1:26.3	shutdown. Took the president in a while about an hour to get out of that dinner, get to the Oval Office
1:31.4	where he had the cabinet and some of those business leaders and announced the end of the shutdown,
1:36.9	signed the legislation that brought it all to an end. It was a great moment. He was very happy
1:43.4	about that. He pointed out that this little
1:47.0	stunt the Democrats pulled, this whole shutdown, ended up costing America $1.5 trillion.
1:55.2	What do you call it? Their little escapade, their little endeavor. He called it something like that.
1:59.6	It cost $1.5 trillion. So one of the reasons
2:03.3	for the shutdown was to try to damage the Trump economy, just wreak a little havoc there, especially
2:10.1	leading up to the election. They thought it would help them, especially in Virginia, where a huge
2:15.0	percentage of voters are government workers.
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