Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Biden administration for its handling of the Chinese spy balloon on Saturday, which was successfully shot down Saturday afternoon.
Wicker claimed the White House owed the American people an"apology" for its lack of transparency on the balloon and stated that allowing the vessel to fly across the United States showed weakness."Allowing a spy balloon from the Communist Party of China to travel across the entire continental United States before contesting its presence is a disastrous projection of weakness by the White House," Wicker said. “It is clear that standard protocol for defense of U.S.
The Pentagon said on Thursday that it was monitoring a balloon over Billings, Montana, that it had"very high confidence" belonged to China. The balloon is movable and is located about 60,000 feet above the United States. The balloon traveled across the U.S. this week, to the Carolinas on Saturday where it was shot down.
“The balloon should have been shot down before it crossed the continental United States, not after," Sen. Tim Scott said in a statement."We still don’t know what information was collected and where it was sent. This was a dereliction of Biden’s duty, and let’s hope the American people don’t pay a price.”
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