<div id="readability-page-1">A stronger-than-expected jobs report for the month of September has some increasing the odds that the Federal Reserve won’t cut interest rates next month. But Kevin Hassett, director of the president’s National Economic Council, said that would be a “very bad time” for the central bank to pause cutting because the government shutdown dented economi...</div>

<p>Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, suggests that the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates in December due to the economic impact of the government shutdown, despite a strong jobs report for September.</p>

White House’s Hassett says government shutdown impact means Fed should cut rates in December