Republican U.S. lawmakers on Sunday criticized President Joe Biden for waiting days to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon
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Cotton told the “Fox News Sunday” program that he believed Biden had waited to disclose the penetration of U.S. airspace because he wanted to salvage Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned diplomatic trip to Beijing, which ultimately was postponed..“I think part of it is the president’s reluctance to take any action that would be viewed as provocative or confrontational towards the Chinese communists,” Cotton added.
“The president called for this to be dealt with in a way that balanced all of the different risks. That’s exactly what happened,” Buttigieg said. “The military did a terrific job. From our perspective in the DOT , of course, our main concern is the safety of the national airspace.” “The bottom line here is that shooting down the balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intel gain,” Schumer told a news conference.NUCLEAR MISSILE SITES
“The president has allowed this to go across our most sensitive sites and wasn’t even going to tell the American public if you hadn’t broken the story,” Turner told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “There was no attempt to notify Congress, no attempt to put together the Gang of Eight . I think this administration lacks urgency.”.
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