How Much DOGE Has Saved You – October 23rd, 2025

Savings per federal taxpayer: $1,329.19      

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. It's the info you
need to start your day in the bomb Beaches and
the Treasure Coast. And it was a few weeks ago
that I mentioned to you for the first time since June,
the DOGE was dojing, No more Elon musk, no more
big balls, but dozers doing what the aforementioned had been doing.

(00:29):
And as we take a look at the Department of
Government Efficiency, since my previous update a few weeks ago,
more dozing has taken place, specifically over eight billion dollars
in additional savings. So here's an update as to what
DOGE has saved you. As of today, total savings by
DOGE is now up to two hundred and fourteen billion

(00:50):
dollars across twenty two impacted federal government agencies, having eliminated
twenty nine thousand, five hundred and ninety one initiatives. And
then you start taking a look at the total goal numbers,
and all these things progress towards the minimum goal that
Elon laid out in savings of five hundred billion dollars.

(01:12):
Who knows, maybe we get there after all, forty three
percent of the way there, closing in on being halfway there.
Progress towards the best case saving scenario, which nobody thinks
will happen at this point. The two trillion dollar kind
of like moonshot that Elon put out there. We're eleven
percent of the way towards that target. But here's the
brass tax of this. What does this actually mean to you?

(01:33):
How much has Doge saved you? The savings per federal
taxpayer is now up to one thousand, three hundred and
twenty nine dollars and nineteen cents, So it's not nothing,
it's meaningful money. And as reminder, Doge has a mandate
to remain in place through President Trump's executive order until
the fourth of July next year, and actually, at that point,

(01:56):
hopefully President Trump just makes this thing permanent, all right,
Small Florida headlines Convicted attempted Trump assassin Ryan Ruth now
says he wants an attorney to represent him at sentencing
later this year. Of course, Ruth represented himself during trial,
found guilty on all accounts against him, and he faces
a possible life sentence. Court documents show the Federal Public
Defender's Office requesting the court appoint a conflict free attorney

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represent Ruth during sentencing scheduled four December eighteenth. The office
also says his standby council should not be reappointed due
to a conflict of interest. Town Upon Beach's Land Preservation
Commission approving a larger helipad for mar A Lago Marine
one helipad, walkway and life fixtures. It will be about sixty
feet in diameter, sitting on the west lawn, used for
security evacuation rather than daily travel, and will be built

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to support Marine one's weight. Helipad will not be built
with taxpayer dollars and it will be demolished after Trump
leaves office, just like the one during his first term.
And some Florida drivers they're getting insurance rebates Progressive giving
drivers an average of three hundred dollars rebates due to
litigation reform. Governor de Santis making that announcement yet today
saying nearly a billion dollars in credits have been secured

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and those are your headlines