Why Travel Troubles Will Continue Even After The Shutdown Ends

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Congress is 43 days into the government shutdown, severely disrupting air traffic control, but hope rises as eight Senate Democrats vote to advance an end to the standoff. Mike McCormick, former Vice President of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization, discusses how the shutdown has led to many issues that are exacerbating an already understaffed system, then he shares his insights on how to rebuild the controller pipeline, and the challenges of restoring normal operations before the holiday travel season. The FDA is removing its long-standing boxed warning from hormone-based menopause drugs, a change that could reshape treatment for millions of women. For years, warnings about heart attack, stroke, and dementia discouraged many from using the therapy despite its benefits for hot flashes and other symptoms. Dr. Dorothy Fink, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health & Women's Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, joins the Rundown to explain what led to the FDA’s decision, the science behind Hormone Replacement Therapy, and why women’s health issues associated with menopause deserve more attention. Plus, commentary from Ruthless Podcast co-host John Ashbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Charles Payne.
0:01.0	I'm Martha McCallum.
0:01.9	I'm Ashley Webster, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.3	Wednesday, November 12th, 2025.
0:12.1	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:13.5	The government shutdown appears nearly over.
0:16.4	So, how soon will travel be normal again?
0:19.6	After all the air traffic controller issues and a lot of delays and cancellations.
0:24.7	It's going to take several days after the shutdown is over and after they're allowed to start
0:30.3	flying a full flight inventory to be able to recover completely.
0:35.0	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:36.6	The FDA wants hormone replacement therapy to be more widely available for aging women,
0:42.4	rejecting a study that defined limitations on the medications for more than two decades.
0:47.2	What was hard with the women's health initiative study was that, you know, people said,
0:50.3	oh my gosh, I'm going to get heart disease.
0:52.3	I'm going to, you know, have all these side effects from estrogen. And so they abruptly stopped it. And I'm John Ashbrook, and I've got the final
1:00.1	word on the Fox News rundown.
1:06.2	We're now just a final House vote and a Trump signature away from an end to the government shutdown,
1:13.0	which would finally let air traffic controllers who had to keep working get paid.
1:18.4	Some weren't showing up, though, even working other jobs.
1:21.3	So Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says,
1:24.5	I'm concerned that we're not going to have on day one controllers come back into the towers right away.
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