House passes legislation that could lead to a TikTok ban
Newsy
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill voted on the legislation during a Saturday floor session, jammed into a significant foreign aid package.
If TikTok's China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year, legislation passed on Saturday by the House would force a ban on the popular social media platform in the United States.
There was a series of votes on Saturday to decide on three aid bills, for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific.
In the language being voted on over the weekend was a fourth piece of legislation that contains multiple other foreign policy proposals, including a clampdown on the China-based owner of the popular social media platform TikTok.
Lawmakers were trying to fast-track the efforts to push through a ban by merging the legislation with foreign aid, and it seemed to work as support appeared to increase fast, with a final vote to pass it in the early afternoon on Saturday.
The bill is framed as a national security bill, and it's in the name of national security that lawmakers want to decouple TikTok from China. The national security bill tackles issues related to Russia, China and Iran, including new sanctions against all three countries.
