US House Of Reps Passes Bill On Potential TikTok Ban Except Company Divests

The policy, which lengthens the time frame for a sale from an earlier House bill, has Senate buy-in along with President Joe Biden’s support, putting TikTok closer than ever to a ban in the U.S.

The United States House of Representatives voted on Saturday afternoon to force TikTok’s parent company to sell it or be banned in the US.

The measure by the legislators includes a policy to force China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok within nine months — which the president could extend to a year — or face a nationwide ban.

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The policy, which lengthens the time frame for a sale from an earlier House bill, has Senate buy-in along with President Joe Biden’s support, putting TikTok closer than ever to a ban in the U.S.

The House is also poised to vote on a trio of bills this afternoon that would authorise new U.S. aid to Israel and Ukraine, alongside security assistance for the Indo-Pacific.

According to NBC News, the chamber was scheduled to vote in the afternoon on the four bills in succession, one day after a rare and extraordinary bipartisan coalition teed up the votes, with more Democrats (165) than Republicans (151) voting for the “rule” to proceed to the measures.

The three foreign aid bills are also expected to pass and then go to the Senate for approval in the next few days.

Late Friday, Schumer said the Senate was working to get unanimous agreement to move quickly to vote on the foreign aid legislation. “We are working on an agreement for consideration of the supplemental,” he said on the Senate floor.

McConnell said earlier this week: “Here’s the political reality: If you think the fall of Afghanistan was bad, the fall of a European capital like Kyiv to Russian troops will be unimaginably worse, and if stalled American assistance makes that outcome possible, there’s no question where the blame will land, on us.”