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Steve: is that true? >> its absolutely true. >> they will take federal taxpayer dollars, they get benefits, and healtare and work on union activity. >> that doesnt count as campaigning. >> we are funding it. ts one of the biggest things of all-times. this is corruption at the highest level. they are working on behalf of the candidates. the whole movement to get out the vote. they are there on election day. literally while on the federal dime and getting paid and putting forward their own candida...

Well watch for the results. we thank you for being with us. >> thank you. steve: jason, lets go to your list. the role of the public sector is so interesting. i want to put it in the context of the populous movement. they are too weak in america. you have a lot of abuse in workers in the private sector. the role of sub lick sectors is incredibly negative in terms of blocking things. >> this is an important supreme court ruling. they are taking millions of dollars and galvinize thousands of peopl...

Steve: is that true? >> its absolutely true. >> they will take federal taxpayer dollars, they get benefits, and healthcare and work on union activity. >> that doesnt count as campaigning. >> we are funding it. >> its one of the biggest things of all-times. this is corruption at the highest level. they are working on behalf of the candidates. the whole movement to get out the vote. they are there on election day. literally while on the federal dime and getting paid and putting forward their own c...

That. well watch for the results. we thank you for being with us. >> thank you. steve: jason, lets go to your list. the role of the public sector is so interesting. i want to put it in the context of the populous movement. they are too weak in america. you have a lot of abuse in workers in the private sector. the role of sub lick sectors is incredibly negative in terms of blocking things. >> this is an important supreme court ruling. they are taking millions of dollars and galvinize thousands of...

Find your phone easily with the xfinity voice remote. one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. >> major blow the unions representing federal workers. president trump signing an executive order that significantly overhaul it is government workforce. order gives federal agencies more leeway to fire low-performing workers and allows them to slash the time that federal employees can spend on union activity while on the clock. the presidents executive order ful...

Arthel: a major blow to unions representing federal workers. president trump signing an executive order that significantly overhauls the government workforce. the order gives federal agencies more leeway to fire low performing workers and allows them to slash the time that federal employees can spend on union activity while on the clock. the presidents executive order fulfills a campaign promise to cut down on activity of federal unions representing more than 2 million government employees. mike...

Like half an hour if they get their questions answered. its so appalling. i would be ashamed to run the irs if i was in charge of the irs. >> its millions of phone calls. what we did today in this hearing is look, here is where the money is $60 billion in bonuses paid out. 500,000 hours in paid union activity supported by the american taxpayer. $2.1 million going to a whited shoe law firm with 1,000 bucks an hour paid by billed by partners. >> what law firm. >> i dont know off the top of my head...

>> customer service is far worse than anyone would want. simple matter not having enough people to answer the phones and provide services at our walk-in sites. as a result of the cuts in our budget. >> reporter: well today this ways and means subcommittee will present a new majority report to commissioner koskinen that shows, this is direct quote, the irs deliberately cut 134 million in funding for customer service to pay for other activities. spending decisions entirely under irss control led t...

People from different foreign origins. its just not clear. >> can i ask you a separate question about the second significant decision made by the supreme court today? this is on the issue of unions today. how damaging could this be for unions in this country? >> i think its pretty damaging. i think it clearly opens the floodgates in terms of challenges. the court has laid out what it thinks has been wrong over the last 40-plus years about its own rulings and understandings that have existed that...

Would be the deadliest attack yet on ukrainian forces. watch that headline, watching that story. martha: so the irs does more than just collect your tax dollars. they spend a lot of your time at the office carrying out union activity for the members of the irs. the irs employees spent more than $500,000 conducting union business in one year, all of that union business was conducted by the irs workers during their work hours from nine to five. because $23 million in man-hours. that is the report....