“As an Alaskan, I am so angry, I want to use other words, but I’m not going to,” said U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski had choice words during a Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 on a Chinese surveillance balloon allowed to pass over Alaska. shot down off South Carolina, Sen. Lisa Murkowski lashed out at the Biden administration.
“It’s like this administration doesn’t think that Alaska is any part of the rest of the country here,” she said. “To get to the United States, you’ve got to come through Alaska.” Murkowski said the Biden administration has sent a troubling signal to China that they have free range over Alaska. “If we had taken it down over the state of Alaska, which is part of the United States, it would have been a very different recovery operation,” Dalton said.
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