“First Biden refused to defend our borders. Now he won’t defend our skies.”
Washington reacted to the President Biden’s handling of the Chinese spy balloon with mixed reviews, with praise and criticism falling mainly along party lines.New York’s Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican tweeted“The Chinese spy balloon should never have been allowed to cross into our sovereign nation gathering intelligence.”over a week after it first breached the US border.
Biden admitted that the Pentagon had known about the huge white orb — the size of three school buses — since it entered US air space, but decided to keep their knowledge of the balloon a secret.The administration also decided to allow the balloon to travel the length of the country because shooting it down over water would be safer than over land, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.
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