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Biden panned by pols on decision to shoot down Chinese spy balloon: ‘Abysmally failed’

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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.
“Joe Biden was tested on the world stage and abysmally failed,” New York’s Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican tweeted hours after the balloon was shot down.
“The Chinese spy balloon should never have been allowed to cross into our sovereign nation gathering intelligence.”
Two US Air Force fighter jets took out the balloon over a week after it first breached the US border.
By the time it was shot down off the coast of North Carolina Saturday, the spy device had covered more than 4,000 miles of American territory.
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.
“If it was worth shooting down, why was it permitted to drift across the continental US first? And can its mechanisms be recovered and examined?” Rep.

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