Grabien Stories https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Grabien recent stories en tom@grabien.com Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:30:23 -0500 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:30:23 -0500 News 60 https://images.grabien.com/logo_header.png Grabien recent stories 60 60 https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Jong-Fast on Sec. Rubio’s Expensive Game Flights: They Set a Tone Where Everything Looks Suspect ‘This administration has a sort of let them eat cake vibe, right?’ grabienrecentstories622008 https://grabien.com/story?id=622008 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:22:38 -0500 Rick Maese on Sec. Rubio’s Game Flights: There’s a Cost and Taxpayers Are Bearing the Brunt of That ‘He is making no apologies about it’ grabienrecentstories622006 https://grabien.com/story?id=622006 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:20:25 -0500 Rick Maese on Sec. Rubio’s Taxpayer Funded Jet to Football Games: It Adds Up to $1.2M Since He Took Position Last Year ‘Marco Rubio reimburses the government for the equivalent of a single single seat on an airplane’ grabienrecentstories622004 https://grabien.com/story?id=622004 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:17:24 -0500 CBS News: For the First Time Ever, SpaceX Recovered Starship by Catching It at the Launch Tower in South Texas on Saturday ‘Let’s go’ grabienrecentstories622002 https://grabien.com/story?id=622002 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 18:34:57 -0500 Sen. Ruben Gallego: a Latino Presidential Candidate Should Be on the 2028 Ballot, ‘No Matter What’ ‘We’ll be lucky no matter who it is’ grabienrecentstories622000 https://grabien.com/story?id=622000 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 18:27:48 -0500 Ed O’Keefe: Potential Dem Candidates for the Presidency in 2028, Congregated in Denver for a Post-Midterm Conference ‘First of its kind meeting of Democrats’ grabienrecentstories621998 https://grabien.com/story?id=621998 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 18:22:26 -0500 Sample on Buying from Blacklisted Companies Amid the Megaspeed Scandal: It Appears That Howard Lutnick Sort of Slow Walked That ‘It does feel like a discrete transaction worthy of investigation’ grabienrecentstories621996 https://grabien.com/story?id=621996 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 17:41:22 -0500 Miles Taylor: Almost Every Single Aspect of U.S. Foreign Policy Appears to Overlap with Trump’s Business Interests ‘Personal interests and political interests, and not peripherally’ grabienrecentstories621994 https://grabien.com/story?id=621994 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 17:39:37 -0500 Barnes on Trump’s Alleged Enrichment Through Foreign Policy: I Think That’s the Kind of Thing Congress Will Be Looking At ‘It raises questions that need to be probed’ grabienrecentstories621992 https://grabien.com/story?id=621992 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 17:37:03 -0500 Symone Sanders on Scott Colom Amid Senate Win: He Has Amazing Instincts, He Was Ready and Right for the Moment ‘Folks in an all, most majority white district in Mississippi, trusted him to be the top law enforcement officer’ grabienrecentstories621990 https://grabien.com/story?id=621990 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 16:49:39 -0500 Sharpton on Colom’s Win in Miss. Amid the Civil Rights Fight: The Grandchildren of Them, Black and White, United to Elect a Black U.S. Senator ‘There was something about him energizing young people of all races in Mississippi that they didn’t see coming’ grabienrecentstories621988 https://grabien.com/story?id=621988 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 16:46:12 -0500 Michele Norris on Colom’s Senate Win in Miss.: Can We Take a Moment and Marinate in the Fact That This Is Happening ‘The lengths to which they went in Mississippi to make sure that people never, ever had this kind of power’ grabienrecentstories621986 https://grabien.com/story?id=621986 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 16:41:40 -0500 Rep. Burchett on Funding the FAA: That’s Part of the Problem in Congress, Republicans Are Going Back in the Minority ‘Up to young folks with the social media’ grabienrecentstories621984 https://grabien.com/story?id=621984 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:53:32 -0500 Rep. Tim Burchett on Funding for the FAA: We Know It Was Not a Nefarious Thing, ‘We Got Antiquated Material’ ‘The problem you’re going to have I think, is with the Senate’ grabienrecentstories621982 https://grabien.com/story?id=621982 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:51:15 -0500 Rep. Burchett on Becoming Tenn.’s Senator: ‘I’m Not Afraid of Anybody,’ I Work for the People of Tenn. Not Those Knuckleheads in Wash. D.C. ‘It is up to senator Blackburn and governor elect Blackburn which is very cool’ grabienrecentstories621980 https://grabien.com/story?id=621980 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:48:30 -0500 Sen. Fetterman on Facing Primary Challenge from a Socialist Born in Gaza: This Is Someone That Is Very Pro-Hamas ‘Iran knows that the Democratic Party, it’s very unlikely they’re going to hold the Iranian regime accountable’ grabienrecentstories621978 https://grabien.com/story?id=621978 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:27:03 -0500 John Fetterman on Robert Garcia’s ‘Lawyer Up:’ ‘If You Turn It into About a Payback,’ You’re Going to Lose an Opportunity to Do Things ‘What will the next two years look like?’ grabienrecentstories621976 https://grabien.com/story?id=621976 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:25:20 -0500 John Fetterman on El-Sayed: I Have a Strong Difference of Opinion on Israel, There Won’t Be Any More ‘Common Ground’ ‘If someone can’t identify Iran as an enemy, and that it’s committed to destroying Israel and our nation as well’ grabienrecentstories621974 https://grabien.com/story?id=621974 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:22:54 -0500 Speaker Johnson on Dem Midterm Win: ‘Don’t Give Up on America,’ Election Cycles Come and Go but We Stick to Our Principles ‘That’s what’s going to save this great country’ grabienrecentstories621972 https://grabien.com/story?id=621972 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:01:50 -0500 Speaker Johnson: I Shudder to Think What’s Going to Happen When These Socialist, Marxist Dems Takeover Congress ‘The frustration is that the Democrats in the Senate have stalled’ grabienrecentstories621970 https://grabien.com/story?id=621970 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 14:58:54 -0500 Speaker Johnson on Funding the FAA: The Problem Is That We Could Not Get Any Dems to Assist, We Did It Only with Republican Votes ‘That investment is being made, but we need a lot more’ grabienrecentstories621968 https://grabien.com/story?id=621968 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 14:57:02 -0500 Dem Rep. Ramirez on Her ‘Clear Your Schedule’ Tweet: Tom Homan, Stephen Miller, and Kristi Noem Need to Come Before Our Committee ‘I want to see justice’ grabienrecentstories621966 https://grabien.com/story?id=621966 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 12:57:25 -0500 Kellyanne Conway: Trump Administration Is Handling the FAA Outage ‘Very Well’; People Want ‘Truth and Transparency’ ‘We have to err on the side of public safety’ grabienrecentstories621964 https://grabien.com/story?id=621964 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 12:34:15 -0500 Rep.-Elect Brad Lander: Sean Duffy Should Resign; He’s Been Focused ‘on His Own Brand and Image’ ‘...not been focused on modernizing and managing our transportation infrastructure’ grabienrecentstories621962 https://grabien.com/story?id=621962 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 12:20:33 -0500 Sec. Duffy: ‘Our Airspace Is Safe’; ‘This Is a Safe System, Evidenced by What Happened Yesterday’ ‘We do everything we can to keep travelers safe’ grabienrecentstories621960 https://grabien.com/story?id=621960 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 12:05:27 -0500 Sec. Duffy: The SMART AI Tool Had Nothing to Do with the FAA Outage; ‘Zero Impact’ ‘There is no connection from this tool’ grabienrecentstories621958 https://grabien.com/story?id=621958 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:42:37 -0500 Sec. Duffy: ‘We Don’t Believe’ FAA Outage Was a Cyber Attack ‘This was an FAA system that didn’t meet the moment’ grabienrecentstories621956 https://grabien.com/story?id=621956 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:29:26 -0500 Sec. Duffy Says FAA Outage Was Caused by Work to Replace Old Copper Wiring with Fiber Optic ‘A contractor was doing routine maintenance’ grabienrecentstories621954 https://grabien.com/story?id=621954 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:26:38 -0500 Transportation Sec. Duffy: ‘We Are Back at Full Operations’ ‘But what does that mean for air travel today?’ grabienrecentstories621952 https://grabien.com/story?id=621952 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:18:29 -0500 Sec. Duffy Holds Press Conference on FAA Outage: I Want to Thank Our Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers; ‘They Exhibited Amazing Performance’ ‘I also want to thank the passengers’ grabienrecentstories621950 https://grabien.com/story?id=621950 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:13:01 -0500 ‘More Tech Issues’: Press Conference on FAA Outage Starts with Audio Issues ‘Sorry about that’ grabienrecentstories621948 https://grabien.com/story?id=621948 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:07:42 -0500 ‘It Would Be Troubling’: Sen. Fetterman Says He Might Leave Democratic Party if Chris Van Hollen Is Named Majority Leader ‘It’s important to hold Iran accountable’ grabienrecentstories621946 https://grabien.com/story?id=621946 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:53:58 -0500 Speaker Johnson: ‘This Republican Team Can Win Back the Majority in 2028’; ‘The Contrast Is Going To Be So Stark’ ‘It’s been the honor of my life to serve as the 56th Speaker of the House’ grabienrecentstories621944 https://grabien.com/story?id=621944 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:27:38 -0500 Speaker Johnson on FAA Ground Stop: ‘We Don’t Really Need Any Investigation to Understand We Need Further Investment’ ‘Some of this equipment dates back to the ‘80s’ grabienrecentstories621942 https://grabien.com/story?id=621942 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:16:11 -0500 Dem Sen.-Elect Scott Colom Slams ICE: ‘If They Don’t Fix This ... 2028 Is Going To Be a Wipeout’ ‘They think 2026 was bad?’ grabienrecentstories621940 https://grabien.com/story?id=621940 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 09:59:03 -0500 Dem Sen.-Elect Scott Colom: ‘I Hope To Be a Big Part of Moving Our Party in a Better Direction When It Comes to Southern Politics’ ‘We have to change our strategy going forward’ grabienrecentstories621938 https://grabien.com/story?id=621938 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 09:36:28 -0500 Sen. Mark Kelly: Pete Hegseth Is ‘Not a Serious Person’; ‘A 12-Year-Old Playing Army’ ‘He’s screwed things up’ grabienrecentstories621936 https://grabien.com/story?id=621936 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 09:23:28 -0500 Hillary Clinton: ‘Corruption Comes in Many Forms’; What Republicans Said About Haitians and Amy Acton Is ‘Moral Corruption’ ‘That moral corruption is equally corrosive to our body politic and has to be addressed’ grabienrecentstories621934 https://grabien.com/story?id=621934 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 09:19:10 -0500 Ken Christensen: FAA Must Examine Data To Determine What Triggered System Failure ‘The overloaded argument, I’m a little suspect to that‘ grabienrecentstories621932 https://grabien.com/story?id=621932 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:16:23 -0500 Juliette Kayyem: FAA System Lacked ‘Fail Safer’ Protections To Limit Consequences of Technical Failures ‘If it‘s connected, it‘s vulnerable’ grabienrecentstories621930 https://grabien.com/story?id=621930 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:07:11 -0500 Juliette Kayyem: White House Has Yet To Explain ‘Why Today’ for FAA System Upgrade ‘That‘s not what you do in a crisis‘ grabienrecentstories621928 https://grabien.com/story?id=621928 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:05:38 -0500 Chris Sununu: $50 Billion Air Traffic Control Overhaul Will Help Prevent Future Systemwide Disruptions ‘A lot of it goes to actual airport infrastructure’ grabienrecentstories621926 https://grabien.com/story?id=621926 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:03:40 -0500 Chris Sununu: $12 Billion Was Just a ‘Down Payment’ on Air Traffic Control System Overhaul ‘The next round of funding kind of keeps replacing the old legacy, but then also uses these new technologies to come in’ grabienrecentstories621924 https://grabien.com/story?id=621924 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 07:19:42 -0500 Chris Sununu on FAA System Failure: ‘It Was a Combination of the Old Hardware of the Router and the New Software’ ‘They couldn‘t kind of mesh together and they were logging too much information’ grabienrecentstories621922 https://grabien.com/story?id=621922 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 07:18:13 -0500 Chris Sununu on Nationwide Flight Disruptions: ‘It’s Going to Take a Few Days’ for Airlines to Recover ‘The good news is that the problem has been mitigated’ grabienrecentstories621920 https://grabien.com/story?id=621920 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:54:32 -0500 Anna Giaritelli: More Than 400 Air Traffic Controllers Complained About Focus on Infrastructure Over Staffing ‘I think Sean Duffy is taking the lead on all of this’ grabienrecentstories621918 https://grabien.com/story?id=621918 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:53:13 -0500 Anna Giaritelli on Air Traffic Controllers’ Reaction to Duffy: ‘None of Them Are Buying What He Said’ ‘These types of switches, they‘re doing that the FAA is doing, they don‘t happen during the day’ grabienrecentstories621916 https://grabien.com/story?id=621916 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:50:14 -0500 David Soucie on FAA Modernization: ‘Every Time You Introduce Something New, You’re Creating New Vulnerabilities’ ‘Every product project I‘ve ever worked on with the FAA has been customized digital software that was built for it’ grabienrecentstories621914 https://grabien.com/story?id=621914 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:48:12 -0500 David Soucie: FAA’s Floppy Disk ‘Was Removed From That Catalog So That They Cannot Be Ordered Anymore’ ‘We have to understand what they mean by phasing out floppy disks’ grabienrecentstories621912 https://grabien.com/story?id=621912 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:46:12 -0500 David Soucie: ‘There’s a Reason That You Use Copper Wires’ And Replacing It With Fiber Optics Is Complicated ‘They can‘t be changed, they can‘t be modified, they can‘t be hacked’ grabienrecentstories621910 https://grabien.com/story?id=621910 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 04:59:46 -0500