Leaders on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and other members of the Texas congressional delegation are calling on President Joe Biden to act on a Chinese balloon found flying over sensitive sites in the United States.
WASHINGTON —
The balloon has been seen over parts of Montana, with the latest sightings over Missouri and Kansas midday Friday,Pilots in flight over the heartland have begun to report sightings of the balloon. On Thursday, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal that the balloon is a violation of Americans privacy and that it was “imperative [Blinken] tells Chairman Xi and his government that their military adventurism will no longer be tolerated.”
“This balloon should have never been allowed to enter U.S. airspace. Instead, the Biden administration allowed it to continue so that it now poses a direct and ongoing national security threat to the U.S. homeland, while at the same time threatening the privacy of every American,” McCaul said in the statement. “I am calling on the Biden administration to quickly take steps to remove the Chinese spy balloon from U.S. airspace.
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