Shutdown Ends and Government Opens, Geomagnetic Storm Danger, JFK Grandson Running： AM Update 11⧸13
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After a record 43 days, the House passes a Senate-backed spending bill and the government officially reopens with President Trump s signature. 11 states facing power grid warnings amid a geomagnetic storm caused by powerful solar flares, and JFK s grandson, with a bizarre social media presence, takes up the family business, announcing a run for Congress. All that and more coming up in just a moment on Your AM Update.
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I'm Emily Duszynski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111.
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When we come up to midterms and other things, don't forget what they've done to our country.
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After a record 43 days, the House passes the Senate-backed spending bill
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and the government officially reopening with President Trump's signature.
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We're talking about three in four Americans, 75% overall, who say Trump's not paying enough attention to lowering costs.
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Team Trump brainstorming plans to boost voter confidence on Trump's handling of the economy.
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11 states facing power grid warnings amid a geomagnetic storm caused by powerful solar flares.
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And JFK's grandson, with a bizarre social media presence, takes up the family biz, announcing a run for Congress.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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As President Trump is settling into his new administration,
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The government officially reopening last night after a record 43-day shutdown,
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with President Trump signing the spending package into law shortly after its passage in the House.
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This cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little excursion that they took us on.
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Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for a clean continuation of funding.
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There's never been a time when one or the other party ever didn't sign a continuation.
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Yet the extremists in the other party insisted on creating the longest government shutdown in American history,
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So I just want to tell the American people you should not forget this.
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When we come up to midterms and other things, don't forget what they've done to our country.
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The final House vote on the Senate-backed bill tallying 222 to 209,
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with two GOP no votes in Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Congressman Greg Stubbe of Florida,
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The deal, passed by the Senate late Sunday evening,
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keeps most of the government funded at current levels through January 30th.
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Certain parts of the government, including the Agricultural Department, FDA, and Veterans Affairs,
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Even if Congress fails to pass budget bills in January,
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the SNAP program, which provides food assistance for low-income families,
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will remain funded through September under this agreement.
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Democrats waging the shutdown fight in hopes of forcing an extension of Obamacare subsidies
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Republicans holding firm, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune
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instead promising to bring a vote on the issue next month.
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That bill would need 60 votes to pass in the Senate,
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and would then head to the House, where it faces resistance from House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Team Trump looking to boost Americans' confidence in the president's handling of the economy,
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reports CNN, as new polls show increasing anxiety among voters about affordability.
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A Wednesday poll from the Associated Press showing only 33% approve of Mr. Trump's managing of the federal government,
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largely driven by declining support among Republicans and independents.
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On the economy, the president's approval rating dropping from 40% in March to 33% this month.
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President Trump casting economic anxiety as fake news,
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Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they're down substantially.
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And the other big thing as we started, inflation is way down.
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The fake news yesterday, they talked about that.
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They said, oh, I don't want to talk about affordability.
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The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows
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that it's far less expensive under Trump than it was under sleepy Joe Biden.
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CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, on Wednesday flagging the growing concern among voters.
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Donald Trump might be trying to downplay voters' concerns about affordability,
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but I'm here to tell you that is a ginormous error.
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It may be an error that goes down in political infamy.
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Well, the reason Donald Trump was elected was to fix the problem of inflation.
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Right back in October of 2024, who was more trusting inflation?
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It was Donald Trump by nine points over Kamala Harris.
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Donald Trump is underwater with the Titanic when it comes to inflation.
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His net approval rating is 26 points underwater.
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We're talking about three in four Americans, 75% overall,
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who say Trump's not paying enough attention to lowering costs.
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And even among Republicans, that solid Republican base who oftentimes approves of Trump's job
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by 85%, 90%, 57% of them say that Trump's not paying enough attention to lowering costs.
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Earlier this week, a new survey from The Washington Post finding seven in 10 Americans say their grocery
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CNN reporting Trump advisors acknowledge they have an affordability and a messaging problem,
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even as the White House points to declining inflation rates and costs for some items like food and gas.
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One idea under discussion, ramping up President Trump's U.S. travel and increasing economy-focused
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speeches touting the White House's domestic agenda and effort to bring down costs ahead of the holidays.
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As the White House grapples with economic messaging, President Trump upsetting the MAGA base again this
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week. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump igniting the base again with comments on H-1B visas. The H-1B visa
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program is designed for foreigners with highly specialized knowledge in a particular field.
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The MAGA tent divided on the issue. Tech CEOs like Elon Musk arguing the program is
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essential for keeping the U.S. competitive in high-skill industries. Others insisting
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it is often abused by employers to cut labor costs, taking away jobs from qualified Americans.
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Laura Ingram on Fox pressing the president on the subject.
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Does that mean the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Because if
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you want to raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with tens of thousands
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or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent.
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We have plenty of talented people here. No, you don't. No, you don't.
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We don't have talented people here. No, you don't have certain talents and people have to learn.
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You can't take people off an unemployment line and say, I'm going to put you into a factory or
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we're going to make missiles. Yesterday morning on Fox News, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
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attempting to recontextualize President Trump's answer. For years, 20, 30 years, we have offshore precision
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manufacturing jobs. And the president's point here is, again, we can't snap our fingers and say,
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you're going to learn how to build ships overnight. We want to bring semiconductor industry back to the
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U.S. There are going to be big facilities in Arizona. So I think the president's vision here
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is to bring in overseas workers where these jobs went, who have skills, who have the skills,
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three, five, seven years to train the U.S. workers. Then they can go home. The U.S. workers fully take
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over. So do you have it? Do you understand the concern that people have? Hey, an American could have
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that job. Why are you giving it to a guy from India or China? But an American can't have that job.
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So it's specific skills. Because we haven't built ships in the U.S. for years. We haven't built
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semiconductors. So this idea of overseas partners coming in, teaching American workers, then returning
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home, that's a home run. The controversy underscoring a deepening divide between the
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America First populists and the tech wing of the movement, with midterms just one year away.
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Coming up, a massive geomagnetic storm putting 11 states on notice for possible power grid warnings.
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And JFK's grandson announces a run for Congress.
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earth, sparking power grid warnings across 11 states, though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Administration, or NOAA, says the most intense phase is over. According to NOAA, the storm peaking at G4
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intensity on Wednesday, meteorologist Max Schuster, who goes by max velocity, breaking down the storm
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scale in a video posted to X. Space weather storms are rated on a scale from G1 to G5, with G1 being
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minor and G5 being extreme. This one is forecasted to reach G4 level, which is very severe. This is just
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one step below the most powerful type of geomagnetic storm. These storms can cause a ton of different
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problems, including disrupting GPS signals, causing radio blackouts, and even creating
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voltage spikes in power grids. But these storms can also bring incredible northern lights. And keep
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in mind, a G1 storm usually doesn't bring northern lights much further south than Canada, but we're
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talking about a G4 storm, which means that northern lights could be visible as far south as Texas and
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Georgia. This powerful event is being driven by coronal mass ejections, which are also called CMEs.
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A CME is a massive burst of charged solar particles racing towards Earth. When those particles hit our
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magnetic field, they can trigger brilliant light shows and temporary tech disruptions. Storms like
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this only happen a few times a decade and are very difficult to predict in advance.
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Space.com reporting the solar flare causing the CME was the strongest one of 2025 so far, causing radio
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blackouts across parts of Europe and Africa earlier this week. Forecasters predict the intensity will
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reduce throughout today from severe to strong, dwindling to minor by tomorrow. Grid warnings
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in place across northern states, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
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Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. As for what's causing this intense activity,
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The sun is going through a major facelift. Every 11 years, its poles swap places, causing magnetic
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twists and tangles along the way. In effect of this intense solar activity, the northern lights,
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typically only visible at the Earth's poles, now appearing much farther south. The dazzling
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colors forming when particles from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic field. Space.com reporting
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colorful auroras seen in the sky as far south as Mexico. President John F. Kennedy's only grandson,
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Jack Schlossberg, announcing on Tuesday a run for New York's 12th congressional district,
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currently occupied by 78-year-old Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler, who is retiring at the end of this
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term. Here, part of Schlossberg's announcement posted to social media.
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My name is Jack Schlossberg, and I'm running for Congress to represent my home, New York's 12th
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congressional district, where I was born and raised. I'm not running because I have all the
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answers to our problems. I'm running because the people of New York 12 do. I want to listen to your
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struggles, hear your stories, amplify your voice, go to Washington, and execute on your behalf.
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There is nowhere I'd rather be than in the arena fighting for my hometown. Over the next eight months,
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during the course of this campaign, I hope to meet as many of you as I can. If you see me on the street,
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please say hello. If I knock on your door, I hope we can have a conversation, because politics should
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be personal. Thanks. More to come soon, and I'll see you on the trail, New York 12th.
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The 32-year-old Democrat holds law and business degrees from Harvard. Prior to the 2024 election,
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Schlossberg was named political correspondent for Vogue in a glossy spread, where he referred to himself as,
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quote, a funnel wacky guy. I'm a silly goose, a silly goose who's trying, just trying, to get the
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truth out there. Under Schlossberg's byline, a total of seven articles, including a transcript of his
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speech at the 2024 Democrat National Convention. Post-college, Schlossberg worked for a short period
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of time in Japan, where his mother, Caroline Kennedy, was serving as U.S. ambassador. Beyond the glitzy,
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glowing magazine profiles, Schlossberg's own, less carefully managed, image on social media is at
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times bizarre and cruel. Earlier this year, Schlossberg receiving a wave of criticism after
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posting a video mocking his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s degenerative voice condition.
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Hey, everybody. I'm trying to figure out the right present to get Donald Trump for the
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inauguration. So I found a really rare animal and killed it, and I'm going to give it to him.
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Schlossberg routinely criticizes his cousin on a both political and personal level. At times,
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the Kennedy scion firing off bizarre posts, including this one from January, quote,
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true or false, Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O, his grandmother. Schlossberg then following up with,
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quote, I'm a literal pervert. I called my grandmother hot. Have I totally lost it?
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Schlossberg continuing the post in third person, quote, Jesus, this kid will do anything for
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attention. Your grandfather would be ashamed. Seriously, time to get a job, end quote. To win
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this job, Schlossberg campaigning against at least three other declared candidates,
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That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party. Megan is back
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