- The New York Democrat told ABC the downing Saturday of an aerial object over Canada – the third over North America in eight days – only increases the urgency for Congress to get to the bottom of what appears to be a previously unknown surveillance program by the Chinese.
- Schumer said such a balloon program, which government officials now say existed during the Trump administration, was unknown to Congress and the intelligence and military communities until a few months ago is “wild.”
- All members of Congress were briefed Thursday on the suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down Feb. 4 off the South Carolina coast after it traversed much of the continental U.S.