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TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package

The TikTok divest-or-ban bill is going to the Senate again

During debate on the bill Saturday morning, New York’s Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he supported the package that includes the updated TikTok legislation, even though he voted against the standalone version. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) did not directly address the TikTok bill when he stood in opposition to the House package on the floor Saturday but alluded to the way the app has shown Americans the destruction that’s played out in Gaza under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s command. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), the ranking member on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party who helped lead the original TikTok legislation, emphasized that the bill “is not a ban, it’s about a divestment.

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