host: everett kelley is here. start calling in. if you are a federal employee and you want to give your perspective on this, 202-748-8003. you can use that same number two text us. earlier this week, vivek ramaswamy was talking about this effort. i want to get your response. [video clip] >> here is the dirty little secret in the federal bureaucracy today. most people do not even show up to work. if you require most of those federal bureaucrats to come to work five days a week, a lot of them will not want to do that. these are examples. it is a great point you just brought up. sweeping changes we are able to make quickly. >> you could move agriculture somewhere else. is that what you are thinking? >> absolutely. even bigger picture, many agencies should be downsized wherever they are and for whatever does remain, move them out so they are more accountable to the people. if you have many voluntary reductions of the size of the workforce along the way, that is a good side effect of the policies. our goal is not to be cruel to the indi

host: everett kelley is here. start calling in.you are a federal employee and you want to give your perspective on this, 202-748-8003. you can use that same number two text us. earlier this week, vivek ramaswamy was talking about this effort. i want to get your response. [video clip] >> here is the dirty little secret in the federal bureaucracy today. most people do not even show up to work. if you require most of those federal bureaucrats to come to work five days a week, a lot of them will not want to do that. these are examples. it is a great point you just brought up. sweeping changes we are able to make quickly. >> you could move agriculture somewhere else. is that what you are thinking? >> absolutely. even bigger picture, many agencies should be downsized wherever they are and for whatever does remain, move them out so they are more accountable to the people. if you have many voluntary reductions of the size of the workforce along the way, that is a good side effect of the policies. our goal is not to be cruel to the individu

and senate republicans to discuss, quote major reform ideas my inside source on this story is everett kelley. >> he's the national president of the american federation of government employees. he represents more than 800,000 federal workers everett, thank you so much for being with us tonight. you say that these threats from musk are designed to terrorize federal workers i wonder what you're hearing from them well, thank you for having me first of all, you know, these threats you know, they are uncalled for. >> first of all, real leaders do not behave like this right real leaders don't terrorize and instill fear in americans uh, singling out individual workers is an attempt to instill fear in federal employees. >> and it won't work. >> i don't believe the american people want to waste their tax dollars going toward the types of behavior like this, either now, our members have been here for 90 years under several presidents and political parties, government workers are no stranger to criticism uh, one third, uh, matter of fact, about 642,000 of federal workers, uh that i represent are veteran

moved away in her 20s in search of opportunity and new ideas, first going to london, then rome everett kelleyy there. so we liberta esta casa. si mi sono costruita un ambiente senza natural. puoi quello che e la cucina umbra alice combines the distinctly umbrian food tradition with a more modern sensibility. kedr questo questa e una cosa fra altro si in inghilterra io imparato a conoscere le molto bene. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah mangano. >> si si tantissimo si lidia. proprio di terra. >> earthy and sweet. yeah. the addition of beetroot is inspired but nothing upstages the true star of the show a mountain of truffle and now here it comes a fitting finale in celebration of carlo alessi the future of the truffle and possibly the future of umbrian cuisine good morning ah, mangiamo but a mix a prior, a prior yeah. >> hey, come mangiare come mangiare. okay come a wait wow yeah twist the pasta. >> the pasta e molto buona. >> si as for carlo's black truffle, it tastes woody nutty and luxurious you'd never know it was farmed. >> not foraged habitat like we see on apartamento su perfetto oh oh w

we will talk with the national president of american federation of government employees, everett kelley, about plans by the incoming trump to resume -- to reduce the size and scope of the federal workforce. host:host: "washington journal" is next. join the conversation. host: this is the "washington journal" for november 22. pam bondi will be attorney general under the trump administration, after matt gaetz removed himself after pushback. she served as president trump's senior advisor and lawyer during the first impeachment hearing. phone lines these morning, democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can also text (202) 748-8003, include your name and your city/state. and you can post on social media, facebook.com/c-span or on x with handle @cspanwj. this decision of pam bondi was mate late yesterday. looking at some of pam bondi's career she was the first female attorney general. she served from 2011 to 2019, the first woman to hold the office. she initiated litigation against opioid manufacturers, and it was settled when she left office.

. >> everett kelley joining us and one ask questions it is 202-748-8000 for democrats, everett , 202-748-8001 republicans and independents 202-748-8002. if you want come if your federal employee and you want to give your perspective on this, 202-748-8003, you can use same number to text us. earlier this week it was vivek ramaswamy talk about this pathologically what he has to say about think it's a response. >> okay. >> washington d.c. here's the dirty little secret in the federal bureaucracy today. most people don't show up to work. if you require most of those federal bureaucrats to say like normal working americans you come to work five days a week, a lot of them will not want to do that. that creates a logic for many agencies being outside of d.c. in the first place. these are examples. it's a great point you brought up. >> which you come with the energy department to texas or pennsylvania you could move agriculture summer, is that what you think? >> yes, absolutely but even bigger picture of the net many of these agencies should be downsized wherever they are and forever does rem