Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas commended President Biden on Sunday for ordering the destruction of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean but faulted him for waiting several days to take action.
over the Atlantic Ocean but faulted him for waiting several days to take action, saying the president's handling of the incident"projected weakness" to Beijing.
"Well, listen, I want to start by doing something that I don't do very often, which is commending Joe Biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down," the Texas senator said."That was the right thing to do. That is absolutely what the president should have done. Unfortunately, he didn't do that until a week after it entered U.S. airspace.
Senior administration officials said Saturday that the military"took immediate steps to protect against the balloon's collection of sensitive information" once it was detected to"mitigat[e] any intelligence value to" China.
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