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By tying the renewed crackdown to a bipartisan foreign aid deal, the bill could move quickly through Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) during a TV interview on Wednesday. (Haiyun Jiang for The Washington Post)
House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine.
The unorthodox maneuver could expedite the crackdown's path through Congress, where negotiations had slowed after an earlier attempt hurtled through the House last month. With growing support in the Senate, the legislation appears more likely than ever to become law.
The move represents one of the most significant threats to the U.S. operations of the wildly popular app, which is used by roughly 170 million Americans, but whose China-based parent company ByteDance has long sparked national security fears in Washington.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/20/tiktok-ban-vote-house-passes/
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