Congress starts clock on the TikTok ban in foreign support proposals

What happened

Senate on Tuesday evening approved a bill of $ 95 billion to help UkraineIsrael and Taiwan, and prohibition If its Chinese owner, Bythadance, does not sell the company Social Media within 270 days. The 79-18 vote sends the package to President Joe Biden, who said he will sign it Wednesday.

Who said what

Congress is not “acting to punish the prey dance” or tiktok, but to “prevent foreign opponents” from spying and “harming vulnerable Americans,” said Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.). “Just so that everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning Tiktok,” said former President Donald Trump, whose executive order 2020 Banning Tiktok was blocked in court. The house’s speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA.) Put the TikTok action “in the large supplementary bill, and we had to get the supplementary bill as quickly as possible,” said the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.).