Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., defended the House bill to ban TikTok from American app stores and web-hosting services unless it divests from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, as “a unique, targeted approach to address a national security threat.”
Former President Donald Trump on Monday released a statement calling for Congress not to ban TikTok, saying it would empower rival social media platform Facebook and its parent company, Meta, despite Trump previously leading the charge to ban TikTok while he was in office.
Rodgers, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said on Newsmax’s “National Report” on Tuesday that legislators looking to force TikTok to split from its owner are “building upon what President Trump attempted to do when he was in office.”
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