host: everett kelly who represents federal workers, on the "washington journal" recently. how can the government become more efficient. "washington times" front page today, doge leaders visit capitol hill sparking energy for new day in america. rob, a democratic caller, what do you say? caller: good morning. you're doing a great job as usual. thank you for that. thank you for c-span. there's so many simple fixes, i remember hearing a few years ago that they could streamline the paperwork for health insurance companies. for medicare. and save a fortune. but you know, i think that ultimately before you really start cutting, you have to put proper taxes on those earning more than $400,000 a year. which, you know, the republicans refuse to do. and by the way, oddly, that elon musk and i have vek and even our incoming new president make fortunes off these tax break that was been extended and will likely be continued to be extended. so you know, i believe you have to remove the cap on social security. on those earning over whatever, $126,000. that cap should be removed. and you

[end video clip] host: everett kelly, who were present federal workers on washington journal recently. how can the federal government to become more efficient? the leaders visited capitol hill, sparking energy for a new day in america. rob, new york, democratic caller . what do you say? caller: you are doing a great job as usual. you are for that. there are so many simple fixes. i remember hearing a few years ago that they could streamline the paperwork for health insurance companies from medicare, and save a fortune, but i think ultimately before you start cutting, you have to put proper taxes on those earning more than $400,000 a year, which republicans refuse to do. by the way, oddly, elon musk and even our incoming new president make fortunes of these tax breaks that have been extended and will likely continue to be extended. i believe you have to remove the cap on social security, on those earning over 126,000, that cap should be removed, and you can shore up social security, so we are not doing the basic things we need to do, raising taxes on those earning more than $400,000. i

we're going to be successful in doing this in a respectful but also but also aggressive manner everett kelly is the national president of the american federation of government employees. >> his union represents more than 800,000 of the nation's 2.3 million civilian federal employees. everett, thank you for being with me. all right, so this administration, through this new doj's effort, wants to simultaneously dramatically reduce the federal workforce and make a rejection of equity its policy. and so when you combine those two things, what is the concern about the impact on black workers, specifically, who are overrepresented, represented in the federal civilian workforce you know, thank you for having me first of all, it's no doubt that the actions that this administration plan to take would disproportionately affect black workers especially in the federal government we make up about 18% of the federal workforce. >> you know, and about 13, 14% of the entire nation's population. so when you start taking away 75% of the federal workforce, you know, that's going to definitely impact black worke

joining us now everett kelly, president of the american federation of government employees. >> welcomee you, mr. kelly. let's just start with the new reality that's about to hit washington. this from vivek ramaswamy and why what he will do is so yummy for him. >> i'm hopeful it will be even good for many of the individuals who may make a transition from government service back to the private sector. >> a complete lack of understanding what public service is, that you know, the private sector is the be all and the end all, and those who want to be in the private sector, guess, what, they're in the private sector. but those who want to work in the federal government, to serve the people of this country as my daddy did, as i did in the early stages of my career, that matters to them. for your employees, hearing this knowing what's about to come to town starting on january 20th, are a group of individuals who don't give a rat's ass about them, who think they're expendable, who think they're a burden, that costs too much, they should be in offices that are sitting empty. how do you prepare

[end video clip] host: everett kelly, who were present federal workers on washington journal recentlyhow can the federal government to become more efficient? the leaders visited capitol hill, sparking energy for a new day in america. tic caller . what do you say? caller: you are doing a great job as usual. you are for that. there are so many simple fixes. i remember hearing a few years ago that they could streamline the paperwork for health insurance companies from medicare, and save a fortune, but i think ultimately before you start cutting, you have to put proper taxes on those earning more than $400,000 a year, which republicans refuse to do. by the way, oddly, elon musk and even our incoming new president make fortunes of these tax breaks that have been extended and will likely continue to be extended. i believe you have to remove the cap on social security, on those earning over 126,000, that cap should be removed, and you can shore up social security, so we are not doing the basic things we need to do, raising taxes on those earning more than $400,000. i think it is a big game t

kelly and marcus. >> coming up, we'll chat with bridget everett from somebody somewhere.ys in about a half hour. the accuweather forecast showing you nice bright sunshine out there. it is crisp this morning as temperatures are still mainly in the 40s. but with that sunshine up here, we are starting to feel some of that warm weather begin to move in here. here's a look at the planner today. expect lots of sunshine. temperatures very pleasant today. above average, mainly in the 60s. there could be a few areas today that hit the low 70s, which would be a record for this time of the year. amanda. >> all right, joe, thank you. we will have another abc7 alwa news update in about 30 minutes. and always rge: pena, s mary, he's made charity work his life's work. now launching the kind corps. >> kind corps is designed specifically to help other charities. every month we collect donations. we pool them all together. we give a huge grant to a different charity every month every year. >> george: the organization helps donors support a variety of charities from across 12 major categori