Bipartisan frustrations on Capitol Hill over President Biden’s response to the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental U.S. last week hit a tipping point on Thursday as senators faced off with administration officials in an all-hands classified briefing on the incursion and the decision to finally shoot it down off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend.
Lawmakers went into the closed-door talks demanding answers as to why the administration chose not to shoot the spy craft down immediately after it was detected in U.S. airspace and whether the Pentagon has a plan to deal with future incursions.
Mr. Rubio said that while he doesn’t dismiss the Pentagon’s concerns about the threat to those on the ground from a shootdown, but he said the administration had ample time to act before the helium-filled craft entered U.S. airspace. “It’s a powerful message to send because, generally, the Communist Party of China believes the U.S. is a hollowed, declining superpower,” he said.
“When it comes to national security and national defense, no state should feel like they are more vulnerable than the rest,” she said. “I think we need to recognize that the airspace over the state of Alaska, over our territorial waters, is U.S. airspace. And so if it’s appropriate to take it down off of the East Coast in U.S. airspace, it is also equally appropriate to take it down off the coast of Alaska.
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