Republican lawmakers reacted Sunday to the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon and criticized the Biden administration for not shooting it down sooner.
"The message they were trying to send is what they believe internally, and that is that the United States is a once-great superpower that's hollowed out, it's in decline," Sen. Marco Rubio said.
"They did this on purpose," Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on ABC News' "This Week." "They understood that it was going to be spotted, they knew the U.S. government would have to reveal it, that people were gonna see it over the sky."NBC News' Meet the Press"There's no excuses here," he said, adding: "This should have been taken down before it entered U.S. airspace when it was over Alaska."also said Sunday that the Biden administration ordered the military to shoot down the balloon "too little too late.
"This is all about China poking at us. This is all about China testing the American resolve … They know that tensions are escalating and they want to see what kind of leadership we have," he said on
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