The White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett announced that the U.S. October jobs report will only include non-farm payroll numbers, omitting the unemployment rate due to a 43-day federal government shutdown. Hassett indicated that the October unemployment rate "may never be accurately known." He also estimated that the shutdown inflicted a weekly economic loss of approximately $15 billion, reducing the fourth-quarter GDP annual growth rate by about 1 to 1.5 percentage points and resulting in the unemployment of around 60,000 non-federal workers.