, resolved that the clerk transmit thereof to the family of the deceased. when the house adjourns today, it adjourned as a further marker of respect of the deceased senator. >> without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. gentleman lies before the house bill. 2147, an act to hire additional veterans justice outreach specialists to provide treatment course services. pursuit of the house resolution 1047 and house resolution 1012, the house and stays adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on tuesday, september 4 as a further mark of respect to the late honorable john sidney mccain the third.

this morning's pro forma session and lawmakers returning on tuesday after the labor day break. outside the u.s. capitol, preparations continue for the services that will take place inside the rotunda. person mccain, the 31st -- his body will lie in the state to the public and begin viewing at 1:00 this afternoon. there ceremony of the rotunda . here are the details, president we must maintain

efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustained support. the president wrote that to a letter to congress yesterday. coming at a time of vigorous economic growth and sweeping tax cuts. they will increase the budget deficit by $1 trillion over a .ecade calls,et to your phone federal workers, (202) 748-8000 and all others, (202) 748-8001. michael from illinois, good morning. good morning, it was my understanding that this is actually a freeze on the automatic cost-of-living increases, is that correct.

it means they will not get until next january. caller: it is about inflation, so basically, he is getting costf the automatic of living increase, correct? host: correct. caller: nobody is reporting it that way and in fact, you are the first person that is actually heard say that it i am guyan of trump, but this could walk across the reflecting pool in front of the washington monument, and there is some news eight -- president trump cannot swim. if it is a cola that he is freezing, i am fine with that.

host: headline from the "washington times," the president saying these of pay raises and should be merit-based and he basically wants to change the system for federal ploys. one federal worker is on the phone in washington dc, craig, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: fine, thank you. caller: this is my point about the freeze. when they were running, he said it was to help the middle class. he has cut taxes for all these big rich businessman to get all of this money in the now it is hurting the middle class again. we have got to suffer again, you know. how is that beneficial? i do not think that is fair at all. host: thank you, going to anne who is joining us from greensboro north carolina. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to say that this is exactly contradictory to the

last guests that you had on who talked about the economy. the economy can i handle giving a raise to the federal employees. we know why because -- there is a trillion and-a-half deficit that is going to come about the cost of the tax cut to the wealthy. the other day that he is considering cutting the capital gains tax. again, that is for the more wealthy and the 1%. more so than anyone else and they are taking away from -- as someone else said, the middle-class with their raises and this is something that has been going on with the federal government forever. that is the policy so he wants to change that. everything he is doing is to help the rich and the corporations. , a federal worker in alabama.

your reaction to this move by the president. i personally disagree with the freeze. i know i am a federal worker, but it seems like every time i representative or someone in washington wants to make a point and the federal worker against the private working class, it is always the money. .t is always the freeze it is just the low hanging fruit. give they, he will raise, but what he is going to end up doing is raising for law enforcement because he wants to keep that community on his side, but a small thing that people do not know, the average federal people,they are degreed they choose to work for the federal government, they are only making maybe about $45,000 to $60,000 a year. peopleot like a lot of that i run into, they believe that we all got $100,000

salaries and we got free pensions. it is not like that. we pay for insurance, we pandora pension, retirement 401(k) -- 2%, we will take it or we will lose it. but to use us as low hanging fruit, i totally disagree. i with this sweet, ok let's do merit-based free start with the president and congress. had supreme court justice clarence thomas said anything this year? it is time to pay for trump's friend gender. trump'sne -- for agenda. we should point out that congress could still weigh in and overturned the executive order by the president. the reaction in northern virginia, one of the most closely watched house races in the country, republican congresswoman barbara comstock who has a lot of federal employees in her district issuing a statement, i strongly

oppose eliminating the pay raise for civilian federal employees and will work with my colleague to have the fairies included in the spending bill. our public servants have been getting shortchanged for years. congresswomanican barbara comstock who is running for reelection. her challenger is a democratic senator and she writes, barber, stack and donald trump blew -- barbara comstock and donald a eight $2 trillion hole in the federal deficit by giving a tax handout to the wealthiest and now they are going to pay for on the backs of federal workers by denying them scheduled pay raises. the suburbs of washington dc. let's go to brad from north carolina. prefer that trump did the -- put a freeze on

the wages for federal workers. i've got another comment. the guy before, he was bragging about how the economy grew at 3.5% over inflation from world until say, 1980, when reagan became president. well, why didn't you ask him what the tax rate was then? in.as 91% until jfk got he cut it to 71%. then reagan came in, he cut i t way, way down. it seems to me they are going in the opposite direction of everything. host: thank you. chris, a federal worker in our nations capital. caller: hi. host: yes, good morning.

caller: i am a federal worker and it probably comes as no surprise that i support as getting a pay raise. trump'sally think that motivation is not based in economics but in the fact that he does not have a tremendous amount of support amongst the people who live in washington dc which is where a large portion of the federal workforce is. a pattern ofs made only helping out those who support him and i think that is really what is motivating this. another tweet -- host: they are getting upset that one is getting paid as one needs a goodaller look at how his employer treats his employees.

the head of the international association of machinists reacting to the president yesterday saying, we can afford lavish tax cuts for the rich but not decent wages for the men and women who keep our war fighters prepared for battle. print the money that we spend, and put out fires in the west. geraldine is a federal employee. caller: stephen moore was on the show just minutes ago saying how great the economy was doing and the amount of revenue that the government -- the amount of revenue that the government has increased is incredible. feels thee president federal employees should not get a raise. host: just be clear coming is

talking about the deficit, saying we need to rein iit in. why single out the federal workers for the pay cut. i do not think that one of them is telling the truth. host: we will go to rose in brooklyn, new york. good morning. caller: i think what the president is doing, his executive order is a disgrace. federalher of two civilian employees, i think it is terrible. also, is this going to affect my social security that i'm supposed to get in january? host: it will not. this impact about 1.5 million and nonmilitary federal employees. --ler: so it does not affect host: it does not affect social

security. i still think it is a terrible decision. host: this is on the white house website if you want to read specifics but the of administration saying, under current law, locality pay increases averaging about 20 5% costing $25 billion would go into effect in january 2019 in addition to a two point 1% across-the-board increase for the base general schedule. we must maintain efforts to put our nation are fiscally sustainable course, the federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases. looking forration what it calls a more merit-based pay increase. going to bob joining us from oklahoma city. caller: hi, this is unfair to us because still workers -- civil workers are getting them pay raises, the corporate taxes go we have to pay

more so we should get a pay raise breed 2% is the minimum pay raise and so that is my comment. host: thank you. sandy pointing out that when congressmen like paul ryan rowe receive a congressional pension of about $85,000 per year at the age of 50 for the rest of his life but is doing everything possible to take social security benefits from the working class is why we have had it with the hypocrites. another tweet, i am surprised that federal workers are calling gained when they are on the job. an example of why they deserve pay freezes. and your reaction to the president's decision yesterday caller: sir, i am upset by a. it.pset by we can have mr. moore come up

and say the economy is shining and then this one, all we need to cut back on millions of workers to get them to save money. the properties i've seen and the republican party over the last administration, they can say one thing one way and do something else. my neighbor called earlier and talked about nothing is free and how the democrats deal at that but tax cuts are not free either. you are seeing how the president is choosing gwinn or's and losers -- choosing winners and losers. i've a problem with it. two headlines on stories taking shape in washington from the "arizona daily star," final flight, john mccain's body. canceling at federal pay hike. froml joining us

alabama. -- caller: hi. i am mary upsets with this. -- i am very upset with this. this is not a raise, it is basically a benefit and that offsets the health care costs rate. we busily do not do anything this time and this time it is going to hurt pockets. especially me, i am a retired year, myrvice and every pension check keeps going down. not. -- not up. host: social security cost-of-living increases, he writes. shilla joining us from santa rosa, california. i am 79.

wishe a survivor's benefit with that coal of 2%, and i want to know if that is what is affected -- we were promised that. host: let me be clear, what we are talking about is a pay raise for federal employees only. it is estimated to be about 1.5 million workers and the automatic cost of a living increase that was supposed to take place in january. congress can still way and and they lawmakers saying that also want to see congress reverses this but right now, the president has the authority -- foro, for uni personnel,ilitary

they will receive the standard in january. want to show you the scene outside the u.s. capitol. it is the body of senator john mccain, family members will arrive. family members leaving phoenix yesterday from their memorial service. the ceremony is getting underway at 11:00 eastern. we will go to kevin in indiana. , iler: i just want to say believe the federal workers aren't showing how spoiled they are and how -- it is amazing to me that when they are asked to take a pay freeze, this'll just be for this year, they get on there and squeal like somebody took away their favorite toy. they act like children. budgettrying to get the under control, trying to get our

military reestablished, and all the president is doing is trying to get our budget back under control and these people act like -- they are acting like children. for 2%. i just feel like this country is full of a bunch of -- the other thing is the merit increase. if you are doing your job at which most federal employees that i see are doing as little as they possibly can, including s, they walkhe v.a.' around, drink coffee, get at 10:00, they launch for an hour, and then their day is over at 3:00. for one year, i am sure they will get it next year. this headline from the washington post, the president freezing the pay raise in 2019 or federal workers. a federal worker, your reaction? caller: i am a federal worker, i

took leave today to go to a medical appointment, so that is why it is not costing the government other than what has been set up for us. the last 10int out caught up ine been the element of contempt. those government workers, they are part of the 1%, they get a salary. yes, we do and it is consistent. and yes, we do have people who work in the government that do not work as hard as other people. but i came from the private sector and every place i ever worked, there was always somebody who was not pulling the load and the worker people, the people who liked what they did are even if they did not, they pulled everybody along.

yes, it would be better if you , and that is at very hard thing. it is a hard thing in the private sector and a hard thing and the government. i am lucky because what i do for the government, i produce a product. by that product, they can see whether or not they like or dislike what i am doing. there is a frame of reference, you understand? again. it is not so much that you want to take the money, we are used to that. we are usedct that in a contemptuous way. andou work for an employer he said, widely have to give you money to do your job -- why do i have to give you money to dear job? you are awful people, why does the pay you to do what i ask you to do, how would you feel? host: your final point.

fortune magazine also has the headline, the president canceling the pay raise for federal employees and that is what we are talking about in our remaining minutes. we also looking at the scene outside of the east front capitol. the ceremony in the rotunda of senator henryol, clay of kentucky is the first to lie in state and that is back in 1852. subsequently, abraham lincoln, john f. kennedy, gerald ford lying in state. includingte citizens rosa parks over the years and john mccain becoming number 31. the ceremony is getting underway and about an hour. some tweets, who in the private sector is guarantee an automatic

cost-of-living wage increase? and another, they got no raises. i guess trump's government is nonperforming. another, seniors did not to get a cost-of-living increase under obama because the economy is so weak. the federal nonmilitary work should be cut at least in half. it is costly and that is the -- no automatic raises should exist. david is joining us from niagara falls, new york. a federal employee. caller: thank you for c-span. how can we afford to pay jared kushner and his wife $82 million a year and then cut everybody else's pay because they need the money. host: we are not paying them $82 million a year, you are thinking

about the end, they earn through their investments. caller: why don't they donate some money to the federal government? host: what do you do for the federal government? caller: i work for the army corps of engineers. host: how long have you been with them? caller: i just retired. host: and joining us from columbia, maryland, another federal employee. hi, i am sick and tired of this. i'm sorry. what we were supposed to be doing amazing under president trump? such a well oiled machine, gdp of 4.1%, but we, federal employees, who are the ones who are really doing the work, doing the service to this country, we are not going to get a pay raise? it does not make sense at all. i get it, some folks believe

that we do not do anything. believe that we are inefficient and i will give him the fact that there are areas that are inefficiencies, but the reality is that we cannot negotiate our salary to go up whenever we want to buy the private sector. bonusnot just push for all the time like the private sector. -- bonuses all the time of the private sector. host: is there a way that pay raises could be based on merit rather than automatic across-the-board -- that is what is saying?ent caller: i have no problem with merit-based but we tried it before. what ended up happening, and this is well documented, some managers depending on who your manager was and the relationship they had and

whether or not, do really was not that much merit but how well you go along with higher ups. i know the system works and i've been out of the dod per couple of years now -- for a couple of years now. i understand the fact that gets ishink that you just because but there is the other side which is -- we do not really get to move up as easy as people think that we do. we know, especially in the stem fieldand the medical and other high demand areas, we know we are taking a pay cut. but we want to serve our country and not everyone conservative country under the military as a uniformed person although some of us prefer to serve our

countries in other ways. it bothers me that if everything is going so well outside, we that are actually doing the work in the government for the that. host: that is the last word from columbia, maryland. thank you for your calls and comments on this friday's washington journal. the journal is back again tomorrow morning for the saturday edition at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. we are live on the east front of the u.s. capitol. in half an hour the body of senator john mccain will arrive for the capital after a brief ceremony outside. he will be brought inside for the memorial ceremony. that will be at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. speakers are mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, paul ryan, and vice president mike pence who is the president of the senate. the public is allowed to pay their respects.