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It's going to be great for the economy. That is Congressman David Kustoff talking about tax refunds. We heard that they are going to the largest on record and in many respects the tax cuts that are going to be realized come tax time, it's endemic, I think of Trump's first 11 plus months, endemic of the successes of 2025, which is largely underappreciated and at times misunderstood. It's been absolutely incredible. And just like with the case of the tax cuts, you have so many people that haven't realized the benefit yet. Yeah, the Trump tax policy was made permanent, that was put in place during his first time. So that happened. But the additional tax cuts, so many people just have not realized that benefit because, well, they didn't change their withholding this year. And so it's not going to be until they file their taxes. They go, oh my gosh, that's what it really means to me. And I think without a doubt that's what we're going to see as we roll into 2026 is that, oh, we had that kind of success. Insert policy here. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck and the host of the Brian Mudd show, broadcasting from my home station in West Palm beach, just miles away from El Presidente and Mar? A Lago. It is always an honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to share time with you. Thank you for, for taking time on this New Year's Eve to join me and you can always check me out at Brian Mudd Radio socially, the Brian Mud show podcast where you get Your podcast and the first hour of the show, I went through my expectations based upon President Trump's 20 point plan to save America, what he ran on coming into this year to see the real progress that's been made and rhetorically, it's pretty clear that, yeah, we made progress against all 20 of these things. Now, I want to get specific because the one thing I always talk there being two sides to stories and one side to facts. So let's talk facts. When I talked about this being our year, what has happened through the first 11 plus months? Well, take a look at the first item I outlined. If you waited much of your life hoping for fundamental changes with the way our federal government operates, like having less of it intruding into your life, that this would be your year. As of December 23rd, there are approximately 271,000 fewer federal government employees compared to January 20th of this year. The size of the federal bureaucracy, excluding the military, has shrunk by greater than 9% since Trump took office. Did you know? Almost a tenth of the federal bureaucracy, Gonzo. In year one, we've shrunk the federal bureaucracy by almost 1% per month that Trump has been in office. And I understand for those that our federal government employees have been impacted, that might not necessarily be a good thing, but for the rest of us, look, we don't exist and we don't go to work for a bloated federal bureaucracy to exist. Mention that if you've been waiting for the death of political correctness and wokeness that this would be your year. Well, there's a lot of context that goes into this. You have changes all over the place. To give you an idea, let's talk corporate America for a moment. So within corporate America, you've had 20% of companies that have outright eliminated DEI programs altogether this year. A lot of them that did it right after the election last year that were getting ready for Trump coming in, you've had an additional 10% of companies that had DEI programs that reduced the spending or influence of those programs this year on college campuses, big time. 432 colleges and universities across 47 states. So almost all states, even most blue states, have eliminated DEI programs this year. You start talking about college wokeness. The ncaa, they changed their official policy stance to end men that wake up and go, yeah, feeling like a chick today. Those kinds of people. The homosexual Alphabet. NCAA changed their policy to end those people pretending to be women and competing as though they are in collegiate athletics. That was big time. Speaking of that type of thing, President Trump also ended trannies in the military. You still have some legal battles about the extent of all this. But the one of the big things, the insane taxpayer funded conversions for those who have enlisted, which by the way, for a lot of the people that identified on the, the homosexual Alphabet that ended up getting into the military, the transitioners, one of the big reasons that a lot of them did it is because, well, you and I taxpaying types would go ahead and pay for that. Previously I mentioned that if you'd been waiting for a time in which the godless souls and slenders legacy news media would become irrelevant, that this would be your year. And you have seen the fallout all throughout this year, including massive leadership changes, massive news organizations including CBS News, NPR, NBC, including the big breakup from MSNBC, what is now, Ms. Now, and even at the BBC because of their January 6th editing fake news scandal, mentioned that if you wanted the rule of law to be upheld that this would be your year. And this can go in numerous directions. But consider this. It's so easy to forget to talk about the success that President Trump has had and how so much of it is like, oh yeah, if you think about these specifics, do you remember the very first law President Trump signed? What was the very first bill signed into law by President Trump happened in his first week. It happened to be the Lake and Riley act, right? So you talk about the rule of law being upheld. You had the Lake and Riley act signed right away. He signed 12 executive orders this year beyond that aimed at improving law and order and specific to legal challenges. Because this has been front and center, right? I mean, every time that Trump breathes, you have somebody that's suing him because he took that breath. And so every executive order, every policy announcement, somebody is suing about something. But when the cases have made it to the Supreme Court, President Trump has still had favorable outcomes on 21 of the 24 cases that have gone that far. 21 of the 24. Which tells you that the rule of law is largely being upheld ultimately, despite all the frustrations in getting there oftentimes I mentioned that if you wanted equal justice under the law, this would be your year. And if you wanted to seal the border, stop the migrant invasion, of course, this a big part of President Trump's 20 point plan. Well, of all of the achievements, it's probably the best known that's also the most underappreciated, the success with the border. Because not only did President Trump follow through on immediately sealing the southern border, total illegal border crossings, including gotaways they're at the lowest level in recorded history, having declined BY well over 99% from those Biden era levels. And to put it another way, there were often more illegal border crossings in a typical day under the Biden administration than we have had in over 11 months under the Trump administration. Think about that. We commonly had more illegal border crossings in a single day with Biden than we have had through over 11 months. And that goes hand in glove with the next piece, which is if you wanted the largest deportation operation in American history to remove the record number of illegal immigrants from this country, that, well, this would be your year, and it certainly has been. So a lot of people will take a look at the deportations by ICE and miss most of the story. We have had a record breaking two and a half plus million deportations. That's right. We've had over two and a half million deportations that have taken place since the onset of the Trump administration. That includes 1.9 million self deportations. As I mentioned in the first hour, that is the single best thing that can possibly happen. Because not only does that solve itself, that problem, but it also saves us greater than $17,000 per person, the process, because that's how much it costs to go through the detention process, to send ICE out, to have them detain these people, to put them in the deportation facilities, to keep them there, and then eventually to take them wherever. So effectively, in the first 11 months of the Trump administration, what's been accomplished? Well, they've reduced the illegal immigrant population by somewhere in the neighborhood of about one year's worth of Biden's open border policies. Not bad, lots more to go. But given how much harder it is to actually deport people are already here compared to just letting anybody and everybody across that border or find them IN or the CBP1 Home app, as the case happened to be, it's pretty remarkable. What's more is that Trump administration recently finalized a deal with Boeing to significantly accelerate deportations going forward. And so if they're able, if ICE is able to do a lot more going forward and you start having kind of that next tier with the those who have self deported. Like, you know what, it's getting a little close to home with these deportations. Maybe it's time for us to reconsider. We can maybe even accelerate that progress into 2026. So I mentioned if you wanted an end to high inflation and for life to become more affordable again, well, this would, would be your year. Okay. So of anything, this is where a lot of folks are like, look, life's expensive. Life is really expensive. Inflation is still high. Things cost too much. Okay, now, couple things about this. I've always said that you can lie to people about what policy will do, and those who are inclined to believe that politician might for a time. But you can't lie to people about what is or isn't in their wallet because they know. Which, by the way, as we are talking about Obamacare subsidies coming to an end today, the you have the left that's freaking out about. In reality, I actually went all the way back in my analysis of Obamacare, which evidently was greater than Nancy Pelosi's at the time. Remember, we had to, we had to sign it, I had to pass it to know what was in it. That's actually where I came up with that saying that you can lie to people about what policy will do, and those who are inclined to believe might for a time, but you can't lie to people about what is or isn't in their wallet because they know when I was dealing with the Obamacare issue way back when, and I ended up bringing out analysis that showed, no, this is actually going to create more problems. You're not going to be able to keep your doctor, you're not going to be able to keep your insurance plan if you want to. All these things that, that was the response I had for people who didn't want to hear it. But no, because Obama said, well, you, you can see what is or isn't in your wallet. You can see what the real health care crisis is, which is Obamacare. Some people are really continuing to struggle under the weight of cost pressures generally, and affordability issues. Don't want to minimize that. It's real. But with that said, the fact of the matter is that the average American is actually faring far better today compared to prior to January 20th. Consider this consumer price index. That's your inflation rate for the first three quarters of President Trump's administration. It's averaged 2.7%. Now, that's lower than the rate that Trump inherited from the Biden administration, despite the impact of tariffs. But what is most important, and this is what didn't happen during the Biden administration, the average income has increased by 3 1/2% year over year. Okay, so if you're the average person, net of inflation, you're actually doing about 1% better off. You got money that's left over that you didn't have prior to January 20th. That's the big difference. Because under the Biden administration, the average American was worse off progressively the average American by the time Biden was done with inflation and what happened with income growth with the average person about 3% worse off than they were previously. So it was real. We've reversed that in the first year by about 1%. So it still isn't exactly where it needs to be. Trump knows that, but we have made a lot of Progress there in 11 plus months. What's more is that as US economic growth has been surging, as was evidenced by the 4.3% third quarter growth rate, which by the way, that followed the 3.8% economic growth rate in the second quarter, the economy keeps doing a lot better than the so called experts think it will. We're seeing the economy grow far in excess of inflation too, and that should really help continue to facilitate wage growth and job opportunities despite the impacts of AI, as that's part of the conversation too. So there's a lot to feel good about on that front as we enter 2026. We'll continue with the receipts next. I'm Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. Patriots Radio hosts a couple of regular guys, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Foreign.
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The FBI and our DOJ partners on the ground. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin talking about the efforts in Minnesota that we discussed largely in the second hour of the show as we're going through the receipts right now on Trump's 20 point plan through the first 11 plus months. Often so much more progress that's been made than I believe what people necessarily, even Trump supporters often will fully appreciate you go through. And it's really an incredible story taking a look at the receipts. We'll continue to break that down. We do have someone who not happy with all the receipts apparently. Andrew in Houston with the talk back. Hey, Brian Mudd, you're talking about all these accomplishments and I'm a Trump supporter. I voted for him in the primary and 16 you're touting off this 20 point thing. What about this question? When are we going to get more money in our pockets? I don't work on Overtime, I don't work on tips. I'm not on Social Security, I'm not getting any more money on the tax return. You guys are trying too hard to convince people. Yeah, I mean look, two sides of stories, one side of facts. Your taxes would have gone higher if the one big aesthetically pleasing act hadn't passed. Because remember, the Trump tax cuts would have gone away. So that would have been a tax increase. And then secondarily what I mentioned, the average person is doing better net of inflation than a year ago because of these Trump policies. So even if you didn't get an additional tax break above and beyond as you're talking about, the odds are you're doing better than you were if you're just the average person then on January 20th. So it's not about trying, it's about there being two sides of stories and one side of facts. And that's exactly what we will continue to do as I break down the receipts seeds of that 20 point plan. And let's remember it's only been 11 plus months too. There is much more to come. I just think that it's important to take note of the accomplishments that we've already seen. Brian Mudd in for clan Buck, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth. We're in the bullseye here. It was a snowiest day on record for Syracuse, two feet in one day and now mounds of snow all over the city that are taller than us, taller than cars and people are just digging out. This brings the city to three feet above average for the season. That is Fox Weather's Katie Byrne and that lake effect snow upstate New York. Have a feeling there will be a lot of New Year's celebrations that will be inside and just with the the families indoors. So I do hope you and your family have had a very merry Christmas season. Happy New Year to you as we roll into 2026. Brian Mudd here for Clay and Buck. And I've been going through the receipts on President Trump's 20 point plan that he ran on and that he's worked on every single one of those points during the course of this first 11 plus months. And it's easy even for a Trump supporter to overlook the extent of the success and in so many different areas. I can tell you in researching and analyzing this for you that plenty of surprises for me. I'm pretty informed on this stuff. But there's still things like holy cow or things that forgotten because he accomplished them so quickly. And so we're up to energy in the 20 point plan. And when I mentioned that if you wanted to take advantage of US Energy resources as opposed to being reliant on foreign sources of energy, well, this, this would be your year. We certainly have seen that type of policy put place by the Trump administration. And what has the net result been? Well, total domestic energy production, record high right now. It's increased by about 4%. And that is not mostly the the because of oil. I mean, oil is a big part of it. Oil production is up 3%, but electricity production's up too. You've had a 5% increase in nat gas. But here's something that probably surprised a lot of people. The biggest percentage growth increases come with renewables. Yeah, Trump just canceled the wind offshore program. And yet you've had solar. That has really led the way. And renewables. There's 11% more energy being produced right now today by renewables than we had on January 20th. If you've wanted American companies to return manufacturing to the US Instead of relying on countries like China, well, this would be your year. Let's take a look at the scorecard on this one. All in, 59% of manufacturing companies that do business in the United States have increased manufacturing activity. And that has come through either existing footprints or reshoring operations. So what does that actually mean? Well, US manufacturing employment has increased by 244,000 jobs this year. You've also had an additional 174,000 jobs estimated to have been protected be saved by the Trump administration policies on manufacturing specific to reliance on China. China, the tariff policies and everything that have been put in place that have been aimed at the resurgence in US Manufacturing. What's happened? This probably will surprise you. Prior to January 20th, just over a fifth of all the stuff you bought was made in China. 22% of stuff purchased in the US made in China, most recently 14%. We're at 14%. It's pretty significant in a short window of time. Funny what happens when you have American first executive orders, when you encourage US Manufacturing and you also see the impact of tariff policy that way as well. Mentioned that if you want to lower taxes, including an end to taxes on tips, overtime, Social Security, this would be your year. So done, done and done on that one. President Trump's one big beautiful bill. You know, say you might take a look at it and go, well, it might be somewhat potentially aesthetically pleasing. It delivered in a big way. So the average employee who earns tips saves now about $2,000 annually in federal taxes. The average employee who works overtime during a given year will save about $1,400 in federal income taxes annually. And as for those collecting Social Security, which is just about everyone, at a certain point, approximately 90% of recipients will have absolutely no federal income tax liability for Social Security going forward. What does that mean? Savings of $1,500 per Social Security recipient per year. Kind of a big deal, right? Kind of a big deal. All these different things. And again, most of that hasn't been realized because people haven't adjusted their withholding. And so it's going to show up when it comes time to file taxes. Mentioned that if you wanted a president who will defend our Constitution, our constitutional rights, this would be your year. Well, 97 Biden era executive actions have been formally rescinded by President Trump. 16 Biden era regulatory rules have been overturned through the Congressional Review act process. He got a lot more that are still currently under consideration through federal courts. And again, President Trump's win rate by the time you get to the Supreme Court, not 90%. So most of what's under review, he'll win on. Trump has taken executive action to protect free speech on Second Amendment rights, restoring meritocracy, establishing a religious liberty commission. He's taken executive action on voter integrity, on treating homosexual Alphabet people as a protected class. And notably the birthright citizenship executive order that is of course under consideration by the Supreme Court will be a hot button into the next year. Mentioned that if you've wanted an end to foreign wars and conflicts that entangle and are often paid for by you and me, that this would be your year. Holy cow, has it ever been. I mean, there's no doubt that he's had more success. I think just about anybody would have thought he possibly would have. On peace. President Trump proved during his first term that he was the ultimate arbiter of peace. Then you get Biden's weakness, all the messes, all the wars that crop up, and you start taking a look at what a peacemaker and unifier he's already been. What has he done? Azure ban in Armenia, negotiating peace there. Cambodia and Thailand, peace there. Israel and Iran ending that war. Gazans in Israel, bringing that to resolution. Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, Serbia and Kosovo. Again, things that people didn't even really realize were going on. He had success in bringing peace to, not the U.N. trump. He's brought a record amount of peace in a short period of time. And of course, he's actively working right now to bring an end to the Russian, Ukraine war. Hearing that very possibly could have progress here. There's still some details to be worked out. But as close as they've been to maybe getting to that finish line in that war, and again, even when the US has taken sides and we've gotten involved, it's no longer free lunch. We don't get taken advantage of the way we used to. So, you know, we get minerals from Ukraine, rare earth minerals and related natural resources weapons that we supply Ukraine, they're paid for through NATO and all that mentioned that if you wanted an end to the weaponization of the federal government against select groups of people, this would be your year. Well, from Arctic frost and the Biden administration's unconstitutional targeting of members of Congress, among others, to the irs, targeting of conservatives, pressure put on financial institutions to debank conservatives or purchases they didn't like, to the pressure put on Big Tech to censor conservative speech, to platform conservatives, all that stuff, it's all gone. It's kind of easy to forget that all that was in place not long ago all been taken care of. If you've wanted an end to the migrant crime and drug epidemic, this would be your year. Well, with non citizens having become greater than nine times more likely to commit crimes compared to legal citizens like you and me, natural born Americans by the end of the Biden administration because how many bad hombres were brought into this country? No surprise that when you close the border and have over 2.5 million fewer illegal immigrants in this country, you're going to have a significant decrease in crime. And that's exactly what we've seen. And by the way, when you talk about the specifics on Lower crime since January 20th, homicides 17% lower. Robberies 25% lower. Thefts 25% lower overall violent crimes down 11% in this country, property crimes 12% lower. It's not bad for 11 months. One of the things, if you want to see safety restore to our large cities, this would be your year. You pick up on the overall numbers. The improvements in crime across large cities where the Trump administration's been brought, allowed to, to be brought in and do what they want to do with the guard had huge success. For example, if you take a look at D.C. the crime rate is greater than 20% lower than a year ago. Memphis, another big time success story. That way you just have far too many local governments that are like, no, we like the illegals, we like the crime and the violence. Beyond me mentioned that if you wanted to see our military rebuilt without wokeness, this would be your year. Well as previously mentioned, the president ended the days of training policies in the military. But the overall impact has extended well beyond just that because while rebranding the Defense Department, the War Department, you have War Secretary Pete Hegseth that's focused on reinstilling fitness readiness to the armed forces and also that the readiness needs to be there from generals on down. They need to be ready to serve, to fight, even if they were net, if it were necessary, the discipline back in the military. If you've wanted to see the integrity of the US Dollar preserved around the world, this would be your year. Well, after years of declines, the US Dollar's place is the world's reserve currency. It's grown this year from a total of just under 12.4 trillion being held by foreign governments to 13 trillion most recently. Again, a lot of people take a look at the US Dollar and think, oh, it's, it's weaker than it was and oh, gold and silver means things are bad. Actually, if you take A look, the US dollar has 5% more influence around the world today than it did prior to January 20th. If you wanted to see Medicare and Social Security strengthen so that they're not soon insolvent, this would be your year. There's a lot of work to do there. And again, a lot of that has to come with Congress. But starting with Doge and continuing with some of the provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill act, yet a total of $9 billion annually in fraudulently issued benefits and Social Security that have been eliminated. One billion in administration expense of the program that's been eliminated. You have enhanced security measures for accessing Social Security and Medicare. You might have noticed you try to log into your accounts during the course of, of this year. As for Medicare, 324 arrests for fraud have been made. Almost $15 billion in annual fraud has been eliminated from the program. You have additional savings of 12 billion annually that have been achieved through Trump's renegotiation of prescription drug prices, which is another huge way that many people are saving on prescription drugs these days as well, but also Medicare specifically. So, yeah, a lot of work to do. Huge progress that's been made through 11 months. Mentioned that if you wanted to end federal regulations that limit consumer choice, drive up prices, this would be your year. Well, the Trump administration's cut a total of 646 regulations. What does that mean to you? Well, about $600 less in consumer expense annually. One of the ways that you're doing better net of inflation than January 20th, when you take a look at the cost of these regulations. It saves American consumers $212 billion or 600 per household annually. Not insignificant money. View on reform in education the end of funding Critical race theory, gender fluidity, all those woke agendas through the US Department of Education. This would be your year. So about that no federal department cut as much as the Department of Ed. Over a 50% of the employees have been eliminated. Big swaths of the Department's responsibilities redirected including K through 12 and post secondary education and oversight to the Department of Labor, Indian education programs to the Interior Department, child care grants and accreditation to Health and Human Services, international programs to the State Department. So there's been huge progress that's been made on doing just about all it can without an act of Congress to actually eliminate the Department of Ed once and for all. We still have more receipts here and I'll have them next. I'm Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. News you can count on and some laughs too. Clay Travis at Buck Sexton. Find them on the free I Hard radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Brian Mudd
Celebration of the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, let us entrust to the coming year to her maternal intercession. To all of you and your family, I offer my prayerful good wishes for a blessed Christmas season and a new year filled with joy and peace. That is Pope Leo's New Year's Eve message from the Vatican for you and do wish you a happy new year. Been going through the receipts and there have been so many. Trump's 20 point plan to save America. You know the next one up on the agenda? The wokeness in women's sports. And so on February 5th, Trump signed the executive order keeping men out of women's sports. And that interpreted Title X or Title 9 to require that, you know, women's sports categories be reserved just for individuals assigned female gender at birth. And imagine that. And so the ncaa, they responded in kind. That was huge. Another one Trump talked about putting an end to antisemitism on college campuses. What's happened While he signed that executive order in January, 60 schools have had action taken against them by the administration. Over $400 million in funds withheld a lot of changes in policies, including changes in personnel and many of the schools as well. One of the things that may not have known voting. Yeah, the president got involved in voting too, mandating documentary proof of U.S. citizenship on mailed voter forms, among other things. Yeah, the president, he said that he wanted this country to be more prosperous than it's ever been. He has secured a total of $9.6 trillion in new investment into this country in 11 months. So yeah. Are we exactly where we want to be? Probably not. Is there more work to do?
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Has it been an incredible 11 plus months? Heck yeah, it has. And so taking account of that and then getting ready for what comes in the new year is something we all can do. We are set for success and if we control what we can control, including showing up at all elections and put the right people in the right places, we can have an even more successful 2026 than this year's been. Happy New Year to you Brightmuddin For Clay and Buck Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the Front Lines of Truth.
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Clay Travis
Ten athletes will face the toughest job.
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Brian Mudd
Interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated.
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Clay Travis
Pressure is coming down.
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Clay Travis
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