When was the last time Washington worked 40 hours?: Dana Perino

Imagine working just four days a week. Senator Bernie Sanders is serious about this idea, so serious that he's pushing a bill that would reduce the standard work week from 40 to 32 hours. But you'd still get the same pay, even if you overtalk someone. The senator getting feisty with our very own Hillary Vonn when she pressed him on it in the Senate hallways. Watch this. We work the longest hours of any people in the industrialized world. I think it's time for a shortened work week. Can I ask you a question about that? It seems like Democrats want businesses to be taxed more, paid their workers more, lower prices, and now pay people not to work. You know what I would like to see? How are businesses gonna survive? Dana, you seem like you might have coached, she was so good there. She's so calm, and he was like yelling at her, like, get off my lawn, Hillary. Also, I think it would've been funny if she said, you're talking about a 40-hour work week, you are a Democratic member of Congress. When is the last time Washington worked 40 hours in Washington? He seems to be fired up about it. What do you think about the proposal? Anyway, the proposal. Here's the thing. I think that the reality is I think this is going to happen. Maybe not in the next 10 years, but maybe within like 10 years. But for some people, it is a reality already. It is happening for them, and they're figuring out a way to do it. I also think that having a good job that you love with people that you like working with is such a benefit, so good for your mental health, it's great for your socialization, it's great for the economy, it's great for you to be able to provide for your family and to put savings away so that you can have money for a rainy day or save it for your retirement and not think that the government is going to do this for you. Now, remember when Hillary Clinton said, it's gonna be so great when we have Obamacare, because then you can just like learn to play the flute and write poetry. That doesn't help the economy. We need people to be able to work. And I just wonder if you think of all these people who are coming across to America because they want economic advancement, do you think they only want to work 32 hours? Better hope not. Exclamation point, what are your thoughts here? Well, first, Dana, not everyone gets to do the job that they love. My knee injury prevented me from my career in Chippendales, so here I am at the five. This proposal never goes away, and I think it will be hard on people like Jesse switching to a four-day work week because then he'll have to work two extra days. But I go by what I see. Technology has allowed you to compress work, but also expand and camouflage tedium. So you get all the work done in a fraction of the time, and then you spend the rest of the day on social media, texting or re-reading emails you sent that you were really proud of. I do that. Who doesn't do that? Wow, I nailed it. I nailed it. I wonder what they're thinking in your face. Judge, what do you think about this? You know, I don't have a lot of thoughts about it. You know, you read one thing, 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. I mean, that's scary. But then you read things like France does it, Norway does it, Denmark works these lesser hours, and they say there's an increase in productivity. I worry about the businesses. I don't know what the businesses are gonna do. If you wanna reduce your stress level, put the phone down and go for a walk in the woods like Jesse does every morning. Or, you know, just learn to breathe. I've never learned to breathe. It just, it makes me, it gives me anxiety. When I say breathe in, I get anxious. I say, okay, that's it, I'm done. In defense of yourself here. I'm just so glad you came to me, Harold, because in Get It Together, I interviewed a anti-work activist. And her proposed policy is this. Two months paid off. That is not including vacations and holidays. Holidays, you don't even have to ascribe to the religion. I can take Kwanzaa, Greg can take Rosh Hashanah, even if he's not Jewish. And so, if also, if you have a baby, maternity leave is a year, and paternity is a year. This is what she wants, but she didn't think about how that would result in probably the economy of Spain. No offense to Spain, we love you, but we don't wanna be Spain. Today marks two years since the deadly attack in Ukraine that took the lives of two of our Fox News colleagues and changed Benjamin Hall's life forever. He joins us next.