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TikTok’s aboriginal successful U.S. remains unclear
Washington — Sen. Maria Cantwell, a cardinal legislator who has held up authorities regulating TikTok endorsed the House's latest mentation of a measurement that could pb to a prohibition of the societal media app successful the U.S.
Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, announced her enactment precocious Wednesday for an updated measurement that would unit TikTok's Chinese genitor institution to divest of the wide fashionable short-form video level wrong 1 year.
The authorities is included successful House Speaker Mike Johnson's four-part overseas assistance plan, which besides involves wartime assistance for Ukraine and Israel. The updated mentation extends the six-month model ByteDance would person to merchantability its involvement successful the institution oregon suffer entree to app stores and web-hosting services successful the U.S. to 9 months, with the anticipation of a three-month extension.
Cantwell, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed the archetypal mentation of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which sailed done the House successful March with bipartisan enactment but has faced headwinds successful the slower-moving Senate implicit a fig of concerns. Modifying the divestment deadline alleviated astatine slightest 1 of those issues.
"I'm precise blessed that Speaker Johnson and House leaders incorporated my proposal to widen the ByteDance divestment play from six months to a year," Cantwell said successful a statement. "As I've said, extending the divestment play is indispensable to guarantee determination is capable clip for a caller purchaser to get a woody done. I enactment the updated legislation."
A spokesperson for Cantwell did not instantly respond to a petition for remark astir whether the senator's different concerns person been addressed successful the updated bill, including whether it could past ineligible scrutiny.
Support from Cantwell clears 1 hurdle that different TikTok-related measures person failed to overcome. But immoderate lawmakers person questioned the bill's constitutionality, making it apt different issues could emerge.
The updated measure included successful the program unveiled by Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, earlier this week pairs the forced TikTok divestment with caller sanctions connected Iran, China and Russia. The 3 remaining bills would supply $26 cardinal to enactment Israel, $61 cardinal to bolster Ukraine and $8 cardinal to antagonistic China successful the Indo-Pacific.
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Caitlin Yilek is simply a authorities newsman astatine cbsnews.com and is based successful Washington, D.C. She antecedently worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a subordinate of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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