How the Longest Government Shutdown Is Impacting the Economy

如何史上最长政府关门事件影响经济

Big Take

2025-11-07

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The ongoing US government shutdown has broken historic records — and its economic consequences could prove even longer-lasting. Today on the Big Take, host Sarah Holder is joined by Bloomberg’s Gregory Korte and Megan Scully, who cover the White House and Congress, to talk about the shutdown’s impacts across sectors — and what it could take to break the logjam. Read more: The US Government Shutdown Is the Longest Ever. Why Does This Keep Happening? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • America is changing, and so is the world.

  • But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval.

  • It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.

  • I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

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  • The U.S.

  • is now on day 37 of its longest government shutdown ever.

  • Food banks around the country are seeing increased demand as people look to replace federal food benefits that were cut off.

  • Tens of thousands of additional federal workers have joined hundreds of thousands already furloughed.

  • President Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announcing the FAA will cut flight capacity by 10 percent.

  • which experts say means thousands of flights will be canceled.

  • The longer it goes on and we see this in the polling that the numbers creep up in terms of the number of Americans who say that this shutdown is impacting them personally.

  • Bloomberg's White House reporter, Gregory Cordy.

  • And that's because there's a lot of monthly things that the government does