UNBIASED Politics (2/27/25): Trump's 'Gold Card' Proposal, Supreme Court 'Reverse Discrimination' Case, WH Press Team to Control of Press Pool, Trump Recruited as Russian Spy? And More.

Episode Format:

1. Trump Signs Healthcare Pricing Transparency Order (0:10)

2. White House Press Team Says It'll Take Control of Press Pool (4:54)

3. Trump Proposes $5 Million 'Gold Card' for Investor Immigrants (8:34)

4. Senate Passes Resolution to Revoke Biden's Oil Drilling Rule (12:09)

5. Supreme Court Hears 'Reverse Discrimination' Case (15:23)

6. Supreme Court Announces Cases for Upcoming April Term (19:51)

7. Judge Expands Hold on Government Transferring Transgender Women Prisoners to Male Facilities (23:48)

8. Supreme Court Says Trump Administration Doesn't Have to Pay $2B in Foreign Aid ... Yet (25:42)

9. Quick Hitters: Amy Gleason Named DOGE Acting Administrator, DOGE Employees Resign, House Passes Budget Resolution, Trump Confirms Tariffs, FDA Cancels Flu Vaccine Meeting, Death Row Inmate Gets New Trial, Trump to Revoke Venezuela Oil Agreement, DoD Memo Calls for Removal of Troops With 'Gender Dysphoria' (30:05)

10. Rumor Has It: Wisconsin's Governor Replacing "Mother" With "Inseminated Person?" Was President Trump a Russian Spy in the 80s? (37:36)

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Trump Signs Healthcare Pricing Transparency Order

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/making-america-healthy-again-by-empowering-patients-with-clear-accurate-and-actionable-healthcare-pricing-information/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-make-healthcare-prices-transparent/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-price-transparency-executive-order-2025-02-25/

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/trump-revisits-health-price-transparency

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/hospital-price-transparency-dips-report

https://www.patientrightsadvocate.org/seventh-semi-annual-hospital-price-transparency-report-november-2024

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-healthcare-prices-transparent

White House Press Team Says It'll Take Control of Press Pool

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-news-outlets-ban-gulf-mexico-25c77f617418dd3ca2791af90b263a59

https://whca.press/about/

https://whca.press/2025/02/25/whca-statement-on-white-house-announcement-on-press-pool/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLs8Vtxg0Y

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/trump-white-house-press-pool-access-00206001

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/media/white-house-correspondents-pool/index.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/white-house-correspondents-association-pool-reports-trump-administration-00206385

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Correspondents%27_Association#:~:text=The%20WHCA%20operates%20independently%20of,White%20House%20press%20briefing%20rooms.

Trump Proposes $5 Million 'Gold Card' for Investor Immigrants

https://apnews.com/article/trump-gold-card-visa-million-investors-1aa4585dc053e21c7d887f1fdb9eec13

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-gold-cards-visas-foreign-investors-rcna193811

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-gold-card-visa-plan-boon-american-economy-expert-says-mutually-beneficial

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/trump-gold-card-immigration.html

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-gold-card-visa

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zgvdz2z0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfvxKo8r2Q

https://www.immi-usa.com/green-card-types/#:~:text=be%20several%20years.-,Employment%2DBased%20Green%20Cards,organization%20within%20the%20United%20States.

Senate Passes Resolution to Revoke Biden's Oil Drilling Rule

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/25/congress/democrats-republicans-cra-drilling-rule-00206128

https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2025/2/senate-passes-kennedy-resolution-to-repeal-biden-admin-rule-targeting-offshore-oil-and-gas-production

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/03/2024-19188/protection-of-marine-archaeological-resources

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/rollback-of-oil-and-gas-rule-from-biden-era-advances-in-senate

https://www.science.org/content/article/congress-takes-aim-recent-biden-regulations

https://sensiblesafeguards.org/cra119/

Supreme Court Hears 'Reverse Discrimination' Case

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1039/334696/20241209182213841_Ames%20Opening%20Merits%20Brief_Final.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1039/339586/20250117125707958_Ames%20Resp.%20Brief.pdf

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/ames-v-ohio-department-of-youth-services/

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/02/ohio-woman-asks-court-to-weigh-in-on-requirements-for-reverse-discrimination-claim/

Supreme Court Announces Cases for Upcoming April Term

https://www.supremecourt.gov/

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/becerra-v-braidwood-management-inc/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-316/326373/20240919152821295_Becerra%20v%20Braidwood%20-%20Cert_Pet.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-297/325842/20240912175611643_Mahmoud%20v.%20Taylor%20Cert%20Petition%20FINAL.pdf

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mahmoud-v-taylor/

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/a-j-t-v-osseo-area-schools-independent-school-district-no-279/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-249/323932/20240903152119111_2024-09-03%20AJT%20Cert%20Petition%20and%20Petition%20Appendix.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/injunctive_relief

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/oklahoma-statewide-charter-school-board-v-drummond/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-394/327634/20241007120954967_USSC%20Petition%20for%20Writ%20of%20Certiorari.pdf

Judge Expands Hold on Government Transferring Transgender Women Prisoners to Male Facilities

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25513165-lamberth-tro/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/

https://san.com/cc/federal-judge-blocks-transfer-of-trans-female-prisoners-to-male-prisons/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-transgender-inmates-prison-transfer-under-trump-order-2025-01-30/

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25513165-lamberth-tro/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/judge-lamberth-trump-transgender-prison-executive-order/index.html

Supreme Court Says Trump Administration Doesn't Have to Pay $2B in Foreign Aid ... Yet

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333.30.0

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/26/trump-administration-appeals-deadline-to-release-us-foreign-aid-funding

https://apnews.com/article/funding-freeze-usaid-trump-d592d015249934827e023c65e644c51a

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/trump-admin-foreign-funding-judge-usaid

https://apnews.com/article/trump-aid-usaid-pepfar-africa-hiv-396263cd9e7281af7d543d3c68fa46

https://apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-freeze-judge-f995a8ccf69fc62826f69442196

https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/2/meeks-celebrates-court-ruling-on-trump-foreign-aid-freeze

https://www.oxfamamerica.org

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-administration-says-it-cannot-meet-court-deadline-foreign-aid-payments

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/trump-admin-foreign-funding-judge-usaid

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-judges-cant-comply-deadline-usaid-funds-rcna193837

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-judge-rules-trump-administration-pay-millions-foreign/story

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/politics/supreme-court-foreign-aid-state-usaid/index.html

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/022625zr_8758.pdf

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-supreme-court-foreign-aid-freeze/

Quick Hitters

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/precision-medicine/amy-gleason

https://apnews.com/article/doge-acting-administrator-amy-gleason-65af638e646fdd5dd6d5fcc5cc04a2e7

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/house-passes-gop-budget-bill-in-key-step-for-trump-agenda

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/02/25/house-passes-budget-resolution-to-advance-one-big-beautiful-bill-that-will-deliver-tax-relief-to-working-families/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114076153524132682

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/health/news-fda-meeting-to-choose-flu-vaccine-composition-canceled-without-explanation/index.html

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/22-7466new_6479.pdf

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/02/supreme-court-grants-richard-glossip-new-trial-in-capital-case/

https://san.com/cc/trump-pulls-biden-era-venezuelan-oil-deal-over-immigration-elections/

https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1894828961798255096

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845.63.1.pdf

Rumor Has It

https://www.newsweek.com/wisconsin-governor-defends-proposal-gender-neutral-language-2036255

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wisconsin-inseminated-person-mother-bill/

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/891/40

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/was-donald-trump-a-russian-spy-in-1987-bizarre-allegations-by-ex-kgb-officer-will-surprise-you/articleshow/118487146.cms?from=mdr#google_vignette

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/trump-kgb-agent-krasnov/

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_the_Central_Intelligence/1Jc9wBsImOIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kgb+sixth+directorate&pg=PA156&printsec=frontcover

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/who-is-alnur-mussayev-the-former-ussr-kgb-officer-at-the-center-of-explosive-donald-trump-russian-spy-allegations/articleshow/118489046.cms?from=mdr