Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed his support on Monday for a House-passed bill to push the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest or face being banned in the United States, although the path forward is still unclear in the upper chamber.
“This is a matter that deserves Congress’s urgent attention. And I’ll support commonsense bipartisan steps to take one Beijing’s favorite tools of coercion and espionage off the table,” McConnell said, speaking on the Senate floor on Monday evening.
The House voted 352-65 last month to pass the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), would make it unlawful for app stores or web hosting services to provide services to social media applications owned and operated by the Chinese
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