Joined the American Federation of Government Employees to congress to avoid a Government Shutdown in march and pass the federal adjustment of income rate act which would give federal employees a 7. 4 pay increase. They spoke on capitol hill for about an hour. Our first guest is here. Good morning. Brothers and sisters, how are yall feeling this morning . [applause] are you ready today to Tell Congress that you need a raise . Are you ready . I come here today with a message. And you came with a message. Is that right . Yes. Let me take the privilege to say happy valentines to everyone in this audience today. And happy birthday to one of our staff today. I came here today and im glad you are here with me. We are here to send a message. A loud and clear message to our citizens and representatives here on the hill. Do your job. Say that with me. Say do your job from the government, do your job [chanting] do your job all right. Not only do we want them to do their job, but we want them to f
Joined the American Federation of Government Employees to congress to avoid a Government Shutdown in march and pass the federal adjustment of income rate act which would give federal employees a 7. 4 pay increase. They spoke on capitol hill for about an hour. Our first guest is here. Good morning. Brothers and sisters, how are yall feeling this morning . [applause] are you ready today to Tell Congress that you need a raise . Are you ready . I come here today with a message. And you came with a message. Is that right . Yes. Let me take the privilege to say happy valentines to everyone in this audience today. And happy birthday to one of our staff today. I came here today and im glad you are here with me. We are here to send a message. A loud and clear message to our citizens and representatives here on the hill. Do your job. Say that with me. Say do your job from the government, do your job [chanting] do your job all right. Not only do we want them to do their job, but we want them to f
Continues. Host our focus now on the federal employees that would be impacted the Government Shutdown. How many federal workers do you represent . About 750,000 federal ndc government workers. Of those, how many would be furloughed during a Government Shutdown . Guest that is a question that is unknown at this time. The last shut down, that was about 800,000 federal workers furloughed i am sorry, affected. Half were furloughed. Half went to work and just did not get paid. Host we are four days away from a shut down. You federal employees know at this point whether they would be furloughed or considered essential employees . Or are those plants still being put together . Guest in some cases, they know and are making preparations for what could happen. Host what are you telling your Union Members to expect . How should they be planning . Guest first, i am remaining hopeful. I am telling them to continue to Call Congress and ask them to not allow a shutdown to occur. I am telling them to
With the clock ticking and the likelihood of a shutdown increasing, we want to know what you think. We are doing so on phone lines split by political party. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And a special line this morning for federal workers who could be impacted by a shutdown, 202 7488003. That is also the number you can send us a text. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On x, it is cspanwj. You can start calling in now. We will take you through the latest from capitol hill. Eric foley, good morning. Thanks for joining us. Guest host thanks for having me. Host they had line from the hill this morning host the headline from the hill this morning, senator grabs the wheel from house in a bid to avoid shutdown. What happened in the senate . Guest the senate advanced its own stopgap funding bill. Typically these kinds of bills originate in the house come up but the senate is tr