• Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) weighed in on the message that President Joe Biden sent to Communist China by hesitating to shoot down the surveillance balloon.
• The incident served as a “trial balloon, testing President Biden’s strength and resolve,” Senator Cotton said. “The president failed that test,” he said, and “was paralyzed for an entire week by a balloon.”
• As Biden prepares to give his State of the Union address on Tuesday, “the message embedded in this to the world is, ‘we can fly a balloon over the airspace of the United States of America, and they won’t be able to do anything about it to stop us,’” Senator Rubio said.

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