McConnell Torches Biden Over Chinese Spy Balloon: An ‘Embarrassment That Just Played Out In Our Skies’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell In a Sunday statement, Joe Biden slammed President Obama for allowing a Chinese spy ball to fly over the U.S. last week.

McConnell’s statement comes after the U.S. military used an F-22 Raptor on Saturday to take out a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina using a single air-to-air A9X sidewinder missile that was fired at an altitude of approximately 58,000 feet.

“As usual when it comes to national defense and foreign policy, the Biden Administration reacted at first too indecisively and then too late,” McConnell . “We should not have let the People’s Republic of China make a mockery of our airspace. It defies belief to suggest there was nowhere between the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the coast of Carolina where this balloon could have been shot down right away without endangering Americans or Canadians. This was a reminder of the PRC’s brazenness and President Biden missed the opportunity to defend our sovereignty, send a message of strength, and bolster deterrence.”

Sen. John Kyl, an 80-year-old Kentucky Republican senator, noted the following Reports Biden must work with allies to counter the threat from Chinese spy planes. “brazen Chinese espionage.”

“I hope the President’s belated decision to finally do the right thing carries over into his soon-to-be-released annual budget request,” McConnell added. “Whether it’s spy balloons or spy satellites, hypersonic weapons or stealth aircraft, massive naval construction or nuclear stockpile expansion, China’s military modernization effort is no joke. Last year President Biden proposed an absurd budget that would have cut defense funding after inflation. Let’s hope his budget proposal this year is more decisive, serious, and strong than the embarrassment that just played out in our skies.”

Fox News reported Sunday that Biden administration officials believed that Chinese spy balloons flew above certain parts of the U.S. during the Trump administration. However, they cautioned that Trump did not know about these incursions. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) Suggestion Because the U.S. may not have detected the Chinese spy satellites, it is possible they were only discovered after Trump had left the White House. “only learned about them in retrospect by studying historical data.”

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