WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today joined “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News to discuss the latest response to the downing of a Chinese spy balloon that flew over the United States.

Wicker emphasized his frustration with recent information from the Biden Administration and the suggestion that their decision to take down the balloon after it had crossed the entire U.S. was the best choice.

“If that was such a wise decision, would the decision of this Administration be to allow this surveillance balloon to go all over Alaska, then into the airspace of our ally and then enter in the northwest Rockies and traverse some of the most sensitive areas in the United States, and only then we’ll shoot it down? Is that the signal that the Administration is sending?...Those were some of the questions that were raised and frankly, left completely unanswered in the classified briefing yesterday,” Wicker said.

Wicker also supported the investigation into the use of U.S. components in the spy balloon. The Mississippi senator called for the decoupling of U.S. technology from Chinese military assets.

“There’s no reason why the Chinese Communist Party, led by Xi Jinping who wants to dominate the Pacific, should have anything made in America,” Wicker said.

Earlier this week in his capacity as Ranking Member on Armed Services, Wicker led a letter with Vice Chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence Marco Rubio, R-Fla., demanding additional information regarding the balloon’s capabilities and flight across the continental United States from the Biden Administration.

Read more about Wicker’s work on national defense issues here.