It’s Full Throttle for The Trump Administration This Week – Top 3 Takeaways

There continues to not be a single day that’s goes to waste.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time now for today's top three takeaways. Yeah,
sure enough, hook, you got a wonderful weekend. It is
a full throttle kind of week for the Trump administration
this week. As we dive in with today's takeaways, my

(00:23):
top one is non stop, NonStop. Today marks five weeks
since Donald Trump once again became President of the United
States and there continues to not be a single day
that goes to waste and Yes on Sunday, the forty fifth,
forty seventh president.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, the big ce Pack show going on. But however,
his administration just continue to do so much more than talk. Notably,
over the weekend, Elon Muskin Team Doge, at the President's direction,
made the most substantive move yet to downsize and right
size the federal government this game with Doge delivering this

(01:03):
note to federal government employees. The email delivered from the
Office of Personnel Management with the headline what do you
do last week? You ever get on one of these
kinds of emails? You ever had your boss, your organization
sending you a note saying, Hey, what is it that
you actually did over the past week? Within that email.

(01:26):
It said this, Please reply to this email with approximately
five bullets of what you accomplished last week and copy
your manager. Please do not send any classified information links
or attachments. That's good anyway. The deadline for submission just
before midnight tonight, Monday night. Okay, So the note it

(01:48):
gained national attention when Elon Musk added that failure to
respond will be taken as a resignation. That was not
in the email to federal employees. That is what Elon
had to say about it on social media over the weekend.
So about all this, you have had a few agencies,

(02:10):
including the Justice Department, State Department, FBI, where the administrators
or secretaries as the case may be, said, actually, don't
respond to that Musk email or in must inspire email.
We're going to handle things within our own departments. So
it remains to be seeing how many government departments are

(02:31):
actually going to let the responses to this take place today.
But anyway, as we are are taking a look at
the implications associated with this email if you take it
at face value, and those who don't respond may not
have a job by the end of the week in
the federal government. And also just to the idea of

(02:56):
putting down five things that you did it for the
past week, it's like, you know what, I'll play along.
So I wanted to see how I would respond if
I received a similar note from my employer, And so
the top five bullets that came to mind what I
did last week would be these, like if I were
depicting my week. One created and published twenty stories. Two created,

(03:18):
produced and published twenty one podcast. Three performed twenty hours
of live radio, four created, produced to published five videos
for social media, five program three hundred and thirty six
hours of radio across multiple radio stations. So that's a
normal week. Last week was a normal week. I didn't
actually have anything that was terribly unusual that took place.

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So what I found, even just in kind of like
a normal week was the hardest thing for me to
do was just to prioritize what to include, because much
of what I do is left out. And I mentioned
this because I suspect that if you were to do
the same, if your employer said, hey, give me five
things last week for you, the hardest thing would probably

(04:03):
be figuring out just five to put down, right, And
that's why it's interesting that we've heard that one of
the concerns, one of the big concerns here is that
there aren't going to be like five strong things that
a lot of federal employees could put down, which I
find to be interesting. But then it also ties into
something that I was able to drill down on last week,

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while you might be finding that you'd have a hard
time figuring out what to put down, not just trying
to get to five. As I mentioned last week, the
federal government has been running six hundred and sixty seven
percent more poorly than just your run of the mill business.
And again, I'm not going to get down into breaking

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all of this the same way I did on Thursday,
but if you happen to miss Thursday show, you can
go check out the podcast. You could go to the
Bran Mud Show blog get the story and and see
exactly how I was able to determine this. But it's
remarkable that you truly have a federal government that has
been running six hundred and sixty seven percent more poorly

(05:14):
than just your average we're hanging in their kind of business,
not a not a super effective business, just we're staying alive. Now,
that doesn't necessarily imply that the average private sector employee
is nearly seven times more productive than the average federal worker.
The inefficiencies could, for example, mostly be the processes at

(05:38):
the federal level, but then again it might It might
either way. The time has come for business as usual
in the federal government to stop, and that's exactly what
this is. So today should be an interesting day, and
this week an interesting week as we see how this
is going to play out. As we've discussed, Elon Musk

(05:59):
laid off eighty percent of the employees he inherited from
Twitter when he bought it. By the time he established X,
he had what many would view as a better product
that was considerably more efficient. The cuts not expected to
be anywhere that deep, not anywhere near eighty percent the
federal government. But again we have been hearing that Musk
would like to get to thirty to forty percent. Who

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wants to bet that, generally speaking, with an entity that
runs six hundred and sixty seven percent less efficient than
your average business, who wants to bet that we wouldn't
be able to do much more with much less within
the federal bureaucracy. As for what happened last week, we
had a record breaking pays for Trump administration policy that

(06:44):
continued My second takeaway today so about that we had
five new executive orders, including an order defunding any entity
which uses taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal immigration policies, in
addition to President Trump's third Doze related order ranting the
entity growing Authority as it continues to reveal rampant waste, fraud,

(07:05):
and abuse of taxpayer money, which is probably what inspired
that email. Over the weekend, Trump has now issued a
total of seventy three executive orders, or already over a
third of what he signed during the entire four years
of his prior presidency. In his first five weeks, he's
taken as much executive action as he did basically in

(07:27):
just over the first year of his presidency first go round.
By way of comparison, Trump has been an acting policy
at a rate that is greater than double that of
President Biden at the same stage, and his presidency is
three times faster than the pace he was working at
eight years ago. Trump saw three more members of his

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cabinet confirmed, Howard Latnik for Commerce Secretary, Kelly Leffler for
SBA Administrator, and Cash Battel as FBI Director of course,
the one gained most attention. Of course, we also got
the news last night that Dan Bongino, talk show host, podcaster,
former Secret Service agent NYPD is going to serve as

(08:10):
the deputy FBI director to Cash Bettel. And also importantly,
all cabinet members that have come up for a vote
have been confirmed. Trump now has eighteen of his twenty
two cabinet members requiring sending confirmation confirmed. Biden and Trump
at this same stage each had only seven cabinet members
in place, so Trump's first go around he only had

(08:33):
seven of his peeps in place. Right now eighteen and
while the Trump administration remaking policy through an overhauled cabinet
and executive orders, there is no slowing down the work
at the border. My third takeaway for you today. Most recently,
border activity is down ninety five percent ninety five percent
from the Biden administration. That's an improvement from ninety three

(08:56):
percent this time a week ago. However, where Trump has
and felt there's been fast enough movement is with deportations
sending people back over the border. Late last week, the
administration removed ICE's acting director after deportation numbers were coming
well short of the Trump team's targets instead of deporting
fifteen hundred or or so illegal immigrants per day, which

(09:19):
is what they're looking for. At this point, the total
has still been pacing below one thousand, so a new
director is in place, but the goal is significantly pick
up the pace starting this week. Speaking of slowing down,
the bit does in terms of savings that did slow
down a little bit last week. We now sent it
just over fifty one billion dollars in savings, or about

(09:40):
two billion dollars more than last week. It turns out
that it was true the one item initially reported by
DOSE to be eight billion in savings was in fact
just eight million in savings, so that had to be corrected. Still,
savings per taxpayer is up to three hundred and fifty dollars,
not bad for five weeks. So what does all the
dough stuff meant to you at this point? Three hundred

(10:01):
and fifty dollars in taxes in counting. So this week
figures to pick up the DOGE pace once again, as
the employment initiative will be in focus and in play
starting today