FAA Shuts Down Airspace Near Atlantic

UThe United States is considering removing the officials Chinese spy balloon According to reports, once it crosses the Atlantic.

A senior U.S. official Telled Fox News details the plan Saturday after ABC News reported On Friday, a similar plan had been discussed.

‘SHOOT. IT. REPUBLICANS CALL FOR CHINESE SPY BALLOONS TO BE BLOWN FROM SKY

The FAA Issued a ground-stop The airpsace clearance of parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and operations at Charleston and Myrtle Beach were paused “national security initiatives” Saturday, just after 1 p.m.

President Joe Biden told reporters on Saturday the government would “take care” of the balloon, which reportedly entered U.S. airspace on Tuesday but wasn’t confirmed by officials until Thursday evening.

The craft, which China has insisted is a weather monitoring device that has been blown off course, is believed to have made its way over the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and through Canadian air space before entering the continental United States.

Pentagon officials denied China’s claims the balloon was a meteorological device, saying they “know that it’s a surveillance balloon.”

“And I’m not going to be able to be more specific than that,” Department of Defense spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters on Friday. “We do know that the balloon has violated U.S. airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. And so we’ve conveyed this directly to the PRC at multiple levels,” he told reporters, a day after the department disclosed it was aware of the incursion.”

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The reaction from lawmakers was swift, with several Republicans, and some Democrats, expressing frustration that Biden had not done more to stop the craft or informing them about its presence.

“I’m demanding answers from the Biden Administration,” Tester said in a Friday statement. “I will be pulling people before my committee to get real answers on how this happened, and how we can prevent it from ever happening again.”