Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came to President Biden's defense on Sunday when asked about the Chinese spy balloon, saying it was 'handled appropriately.'
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defended the Biden administration's handling of a Chinese spy balloon.
Despite the balloon being shot down, Biden received backlash from Republicans who criticized him for allowing the balloon to fly across U.S. airspace for multiple days and not shooting the balloon down sooner. "Not only was the Homeland Security Committee not informed of this CCP provocation before it broke on the news, but it has since come to light that officials were monitoring the balloon before it entered U.S. airspace and could have been shot down over the water before ever reaching our shores," Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told Fox News Digital.
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