{"id":1836180,"date":"2023-02-05T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836180"},"modified":"2023-02-05T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T01:04:48","slug":"mcconnell-torches-biden-over-chinese-spy-balloon-an-embarrassment-that-just-played-out-in-our-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-torches-biden-over-chinese-spy-balloon-an-embarrassment-that-just-played-out-in-our-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Torches Biden Over Chinese Spy Balloon: An \u2018Embarrassment That Just Played Out In Our Skies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-torches-biden-over-chinese-spy-balloon-an-embarrassment-that-just-played-out-in-our-skies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mitch-mcconnell\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> In a Sunday statement, Joe Biden slammed President Obama for allowing a Chinese spy ball to fly over the U.S. last week.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs usual when it comes to national defense and foreign policy, the Biden Administration reacted at first too indecisively and then too late,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/consent.yahoo.com\/v2\/collectConsent?sessionId=1_cc-session_f77b49ec-05f1-425d-b96f-80953693826c\"><\/a>. \u201cWe should not have let the People\u2019s 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\u2019s brazenness and President Biden missed the opportunity to defend our sovereignty, send a message of strength, and bolster deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Kyl, an 80-year-old Kentucky Republican senator, noted the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-military-confirms-second-chinese-spy-balloon-is-operational-in-sky\">Reports<\/a> Biden must work with allies to counter the threat from Chinese spy planes. \u201cbrazen Chinese espionage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope the President\u2019s belated decision to finally do the right thing carries over into his soon-to-be-released annual budget request,\u201d McConnell added. \u201cWhether it\u2019s spy balloons or spy satellites, hypersonic weapons or stealth aircraft, massive naval construction or nuclear stockpile expansion, China\u2019s military modernization effort is no joke. Last year President Biden proposed an absurd budget that would have cut defense funding after inflation. Let\u2019s hope his budget proposal this year is more decisive, serious, and strong than the embarrassment that just played out in our skies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chinese-spy-balloons-flew-over-u-s-under-trump-but-were-only-discovered-after-trump-left-white-house-report\">Suggestion<\/a> 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. \u201conly learned about them in retrospect by studying historical data.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden in a statement Sunday after the president allowed a Chinese spy balloon to fly over the U.S. for several days last week. McConnell\u2019s 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1597902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17711,17453,3620,4117,5194,10139,17712,6893,6865],"class_list":["post-1836180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-embarrassment","tag-balloon","tag-biden","tag-chinese","tag-mcconnell","tag-played","tag-skies","tag-spy","tag-torches"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}