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July 25, 2025 14 mins
There are now over 275,000 federal government employees who’ve been let go since the onset of Trump 2.0. By the way, that number includes an additional 14,400 RIFs that have happened just within the past week.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Brian Munt Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable. Hey,
they're happy for Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I hope it is for you as we're taking a
look at accountability today. A little bit of silliness and
Sunshine State polls, but accountability something I mentioned I would
be hitting on yesterday because I know a lot of
people are wanting more of it when it comes to
the federal government, don't necessarily feel like they're getting it.

(00:32):
And you did have speaking of accountability, the Epstein thing,
it's one of those things that's been out there. The
big development yesterday that well Gillane ended up meeting with
Justice Department officials.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Gileen Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Marcus says Maxwell answered every
single one of WT Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
She never declined to answer.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly, and to the
best of her ability.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Telling reporters, Blanche took a full day and asked a
lot of questions, explaining Maxwell never stopped and never invoked
a privilege. Maxwell was convicted in twenty twenty one of
charges including sex trafficking. The former girlfriend and associate of
late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is serving a twenty
year since at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, and so already, and we have no idea what
she said, but already you're hearing what I mentioned would
be the case with her, which is whatever one wants
to believe, that's what they're going to believe. Well, if
she said what I want her to have said, then great,
I agree. And if not, what can we trust her?

(01:44):
Because I mean, look at her history, right, So it's
all those things already, and you know, so it's just
it's going to be that way. Conspiracies just have a
life of their own. And my top takeaway for you
today it is being the conspiracies how accountability happens. So
it happened to be just over two years ago. Was

(02:05):
on July nineteenth of twenty twenty three, when President Trump
declared war on the deep state, and it was in
the ten point Plan, but also a video post that
he put up that day, and in that video he said,
this is the final battle. With you at my side,
we will demolish the deep state. We'll expel the warmongers

(02:28):
from our government, will drive out the globalist, will cast
out the communist, Marxists and fascist, will throw out the
sick political class that hates our country. We will route
the fake news media. We will liberate America from these
villains once and for all, and have a nice day.
So anyway, at the time the video was released, I

(02:49):
think most of his supporters probably for that matter, most
of his opponents in the Republican primary process at that
point I thought it was just like, you know, political
messaging during the Republican primary for But if you have
actually been watching all Presidente, you know that he came
in with a plan he started executing one day one,

(03:10):
and he has not stopped as of yet, and so
shows no signs of slowing down either, And so you
can kind of look back and go, you know what,
that was probably like the day that he finalized the
plans for accountability on that kind of stuff. Right, So,
every single promise that he made he has delivered on

(03:33):
to some degree. Every single aspect of his agenda that
he laid out ahead of time, he has acted on,
and as needed, is currently working on. And this is
all culminated in what I have evidence to you is
the second most effective president at this point in his

(03:55):
presidency in the American history, at least at achieving the agenda.
And again, it doesn't matter if you agree with it
or don't agree with it.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It just is.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
FDR is the only president that has accomplished more at
this point in the presidency than Trump adds in his
second term. And by the way, you know, speaking of effectiveness,
FCR might be the most effective. I certainly to this day,
do not agree with his agenda. But anyway, it's safe
to assume that when Trump said he was going to

(04:28):
demolish the deep state, it wasn't just rhetoric, right, It's
all about plans. It's all about accountability. And I've made
the point recently, including yesterday, that I do not believe
you're going to have any Trump Russia hoaxers that are
going to be held accountable under the law. Doesn't matter
what the disclosure has been, what Tulsi Gabbert, director of

(04:51):
National Intelligence, has dropped over the past week, it just
you're not going to have convictions for the conspirators. If
it was going to happen, would have happened. When John
Durham brought multiple actors to trial in DC four years ago,
only for very swampy DC juris to go, oh, well,
this was about Trump. I don't like Trump either. You

(05:12):
guys were against him. Great, not guilty, which is basically
what happened, right. So instead, accountability is and has been
happening through President Trump's systematic shrinking of the federal government,
the decentralization of the federal government from Washington, d C.
So let me give you an update about what accountability
looks like. As of yesterday, you now have over two

(05:34):
hundred and seventy five thousand federal government employees who've been
introduced to new opportunities. There are two hundred and seventy
five thousand fewer federal government employees today than there were
January twentieth. And by the way, that number includes an
additional fourteen thousand, four hundred rifts that happened just this

(05:56):
past week. It doesn't make the news stand in day out,
but you've had an average of two thousand federal government
employees going away per day over the past week and
lead it's been in my second takeaway today, which is
what's a pretty massive draining of swamp creatures right in

(06:17):
real time. Two federal agencies, HUD and the USDA, are
being moved out of Washington, DC permanently. Seven hundred and
ninety three leases on federal government buildings have ended, with
another three hundred and twenty federal offices that are owned
by the federal government the buildings that they're in that

(06:38):
are being put up for sale. You know, you had
a regular focus and all this kind of stuff when
Elon and Company, Elon and Big Balls, by the way,
I take a look at it every now and then,
the doge website to see if anybody has touched it.
Nobody has done anything with the Doze website since Big Balls,
who was the last out left.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
He's up to these days.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
But anyway, since Elon and BB we'll call him where
we're dozing. You heard this stuff all the time. Now
you hear none of it. But you do still have
deep state related stuff that has been dissolved daily and
something that's off and overlooked. But that has played a
huge role in overall accountability has been Trump's ability to

(07:23):
rack up wins before the Supreme Court. If you're keeping
score Trump, he's been on the winning streak and then
some Trump's record for decisions before the Supreme Court in
this second term so far.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Nineteen and two.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Nineteen and two is an he's won nineteen, he's only
lost two so far. Last week you had the major
decision that Trump won on the Department of Education case
that opened the flood gates for federal government riffs from
all departments. This week you had another related decision the
Supreme Court saying, yeah, you know what, three members of
the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Independent Agency that were

(08:03):
previously appointed, He's able to go ahead and replace them too.
And so the Supreme Court basically has cleared the path
for Trump to just reshape the federal workforce as he
sees fit, which, by the way, is the right thing anyway,
when you think of it. It's always been the most
insane idea to me. The President of the United States
is the executive branch, right co equal branch of government.

(08:26):
So the president alone equals the authority of all of Congress,
the whole of Congress, and the whole the federal judiciary.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, so do they get to make hiring en firing decisions?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
You know? Congress they get to decide who are on
committees and who are their staffers are. What about you know,
in the judiciary, do they get to make hiring and
firing decisions in their courts?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
You know who their staffers are.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Or so, why wouldn't the president, the most powerful person
in the world, have hiring and firing decisions for those
who work directly for him all timilly, which is everybody
in the federal workforce.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
In these federal agencies. So that is where we are.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
And as a result, the federal workforce as of today
is now twelve and a half percent smaller than it
was on January twentieth, and the focus has been on
restoring accountability to the agencies and that continues day in
and day out. I mean, look, was not a coincidence
yesterday that l President Day made a trip over to

(09:31):
the Federal Reserve. Why was he at the Federal Reserve? Well,
the Fed, they happened to get together for interest rate
policy meetings next week. You're going to hear from the
Fed next week, and so well, let's just see what's
going on over the Federal Reserve. This is how that
went down yesterday as Trump met with Chared Jerome Pell

(09:53):
during his tour.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Of the federal reserves.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Ecchos building. The President had Federal Reserve Chairman Drome Powell
on Defense over how much renovations are costs.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
So the two point seven is now three point one. Yeah,
it just came out.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Pale then closely examined a paper the President handed him.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Are you including the Martin renovation?

Speaker 5 (10:10):
You just added our entire capital point and you just
said you just added in a third building.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Initial cost did go from one point nine billion to
two point five billion. The President was asked what Powell
could do to receive less criticism.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Well, I'd love him to lower interest Rachel.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Other than that, what can I tell you?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
There you go? So, uh, next week got to be
an interesting week. So Trump making his presidents felt there,
it's the Supreme Court again. It's clear that the path
for him to replace people in independent agencies not necessarily
unlike the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Right, So stand by for more news there.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Meanwhile, as we take a little closer to home, ignored
the poll something that made a lot of news yesterday.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Just absolutely funny and silly to me.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
So you have like real scandals, right, Watergate big scandal, Trump,
Prussia collusion hoax, big scandal, Clinton and Lewinsky big scandal
if you take a look at financial stuff in Rod
made Off Lehman.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Big scandals right now, Hope Florida.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
When I say Hope Florida is a big scandal come
to mind, you might be like, what is that? Oh,
it's the Casey DeSantis thing. Yeah, it's her her nonprofit thing. Yeah, okay,
not probably thinking major scandal. I don't know, like Watergate
or run or something. Right, But the University of North Florida.

(11:32):
So they came out with the poll yesterday. It's just
Republican voters. They pulled on a number of things, and
it's like the laziest thing for a news person to
do to find a poll and go ooh, news story,
and so they ride a bunch of them. First thing
about the University of North Florida, they're election day polls.
So the ones they do right there at election day
average being off by four points. So here we are

(11:55):
in a non election year in you're game pulling the information.
I mean seriously, it means nothing. You think it even
means anything. So the headlines you're getting out of it, like,
you know, Casey with a narrow lead over Donalds. First
of all, Casey DeSantis has not anounced that she's running
for governor at this point. And secondly, the absurdity that
I was just talking about. But the other thing the commentary,

(12:17):
the commentary from the people that were associated with this
poll from the University of North Florida. Here's one of
the quotes from the polls release. Two thirds of Florida
Republicans have not heard of the Hope Florida Foundation, closely
linked to a recent major scandal for the de Santis camp.
While their lack of knowledge helps Casey DeSantis, now the

(12:38):
Donalds and others are sure to campaign on the scandal,
and as Republicans voters learn more, she's likely to lose support.
What kind of nonsense is that? It just again, the
whole Hope Florida thing, it's over and there was a
non story there over a ten million dollars settlement payment
to the state redirected to Hope Florida. Those then use

(12:59):
for issue advocacy during the last year's election cycle. That's
a major scandal. So, I mean, consider the source comes
to mind. And the other thing was on property taxes,
where you know it did show that yeah, overwhelmingly people
would like to eliminate property taxes given the chance, but
then the commentary on it from the polsters, it said,

(13:20):
Floridians really don't like paying taxes, especially the ideological right.
And even with the knowledge of property taxes, fun local schools,
and police, a solid majority of these folks would still
get rid of them. And so what is the implication
that without property taxes there's no education, no police. And
it's just so much nonsense there. So again, consider the

(13:41):
sores and don't pay attention to the stuff. It's just
a silly poll from some silly people. Medium Minute with
Howard Kurtz.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
The biggest story of the Jeffrey Epstein saga right now
is not really all that important. But the second biggest
story definitely is at the Wall Street Journal reporting and
Fox News has confirmed that in May Turney General Pam
Bondy brief President Trump about the Epstein files and said
his name was in there a number of times. Lots
of media hype, what a bombshell, so on, Lots of people's.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Names are in there.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
It doesn't mean anything. It could just be hearsay. It
could just be that he was on the plane. It
doesn't indicate anything about any wrongdoing. And this goes for
anybody else who turns up, although you think they might
not have held that back. But the second story, the
meeting between the Justice Department and Eulaine Maxwell is serving
a twenty year prison term for her sexual traffic help

(14:37):
to Epstein. That could lead to her testimony on Capitol Hill,
or again, people could decide she's just not credible. With
your media minute, how he encourage Fox News
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