DHS Funding, Iran Rejects U.S. Peace Plan, $580 Million in Well-Timed Bets, Democrats Flip Florida 87, FBI Data Shopping

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, Trey and Ken discuss why the Senate funded the TSA while excluding ICE, along with the legality of President Trump’s plan to pay workers using a slush fund from last year’s tax bill. Next, they move to Iran’s rejection of the U.S.’s 15-point peace plan and the administration's controversial preventative self-defense justification filed with the UN. After that, they turn to the allegations of insider trading, including a $580 million spike in oil bets placed minutes before President Trump’s social media posts and the rise of the prediction markets as a feature of modern warfare. The pair then moves to the Mar-a-Lago upset, which saw Democrat Emily Gregory’s 19-point flip of Florida House District 87, and how the shift in suburban voters may stall Florida’s gerrymandering efforts. Trey and Ken close the show looking at how the FBI has potentially used a loophole in the Fourth Amendment to bypass warrants by purchasing bulk location data from commercial brokers. The Politics Guys on ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠X⁠ Trey’s Substack on the Federalist Papers Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at⁠patreon.com/politicsguys⁠ or⁠ politicsguys.com/support⁠. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of⁠ The Democracy Group⁠, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.1	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired winners, short-haired winners, vandals,
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1:06.0	Love the government, love the government, hug the government, hot.
1:09.9	I'm Trey Orndorff, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined by my normal co-conspirator, Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School.
1:20.2	Ken, welcome to the politics, guys. Hey, it is great to be back, Trey. Well, just for listeners everybody to recognize, Ken and I kind of jumped into this game this week because other hosts need to make some moves.
1:30.6	So you're going to get some extra Ken and myself over the next few weeks as a result of all that.
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