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April 24, 2024: SCOTUS Hears Abortion Ban Arguments, Here's How the Justices Are Leaning; FTC Bans Non-Competes; USDA Sets Limits on Sugar in Schools, DOT Requires Airline Refunds, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

Education

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

1. President Biden Signs $95B Foreign Aid Package Into Law; Here's What It Means (0:28)2. Federal Trade Commission Bans Non-Compete Agreements in New Final Rule (1:44)3. Dept. of Transportation Issues New Rule Requiring Airline Refunds (6:07)4. US Dept. of Agriculture Issues New Rule Setting Limits on Sodium and Sugar in School Meals (8:45)5. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Idaho's Near Total Abortion Ban Case; Here Are The Arguments For and Against and How The Justices Are Leaning (11:09)Get EXCLUSIVE, unbiased content on Patreon.Watch this episode on YouTube.Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok.All sources for this episode can be found here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to UnBias.

0:02.0

Your favorite source of UnBias News and Legal Analysis.

0:06.0

Welcome back to UnBias.

0:09.0

Today is Wednesday, April 24th, and this is your daily news rundown.

0:12.0

We do have quite a bit to go over today, so we're just going to jump right into the stories. There's three final rules I want to cover, one that was released yesterday to release today.

0:21.0

Oral arguments in an abortion case in front of the Supreme Court,

0:25.2

and then a couple of other stories from today as well.

0:28.3

So we'll start with the Senate passing the 95 billion dollar foreign aid package yesterday and a 79 to 18 vote and today

0:36.1

President Biden signed it into law so let's quickly talk about what that means

0:39.8

because I have touched on this in a couple of recent episodes,

0:43.8

so I definitely don't want to go into too much detail.

0:46.4

But Ukraine will get 61 billion.

0:48.8

Israel will get 26 billion, which includes 9 billion

0:52.3

for humanitarian assistance in Gaza, and Taiwan will get around 8 billion.

0:57.2

On top of that, the passage also allows for the seizure of an estimated 5 billion in frozen Russian assets to help pay for Ukraine

1:05.8

assistance. It places sanctions on Iranian-linked entities. It forces the

1:10.6

divesture of Tik-Tok to avoid a ban here in the United States and it also

1:15.4

prohibits data brokers from selling Americans personal information to foreign

1:19.2

adversaries. But I do want to note that the Tik-Tok ban specifically will likely get held up in legal challenges.

1:26.5

So although the bill requires a sale in nine months and it also gives the president the opportunity

1:31.4

to extend that deadline another three months.

1:34.9

We could see this take even longer than that, just depending on how the legal challenges take

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