Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter Thursday to criticize President Joe Biden for ordering an F-22 fighter jet to shoot down what may have been a hobby club’s science project off the coast of Alaska earlier last week.
Cruz, R-Texas, joked that Biden’s decision to authorize the $200 million fighter jet to use a $400,000 missile to shoot down what may have been a $12 balloon serves as a "powerful deterrence" to high school students interested in creating their own at-home science balloons.
The comment came after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s (NIBBB), an Illinois-based hobbyist club, said their pico balloon that was floating off the west coast of Alaska went missing the same day a Lockheed Martin jet shot down an unidentified object matching its description.
"To be fair, Biden is providing is powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America…." Cruz wrote on Twitter.
Cruz responds after Biden allegedly authorized $200 million fighter jet to shoot down $12 science balloon
- by: Lawrence Richard
- 02.17.23
- Source:
Fox News
- 02/17/2023
Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore is licensed under flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore is licensed under flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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