The congressman pointed to Donald Trump’s efforts to strike a deal with China and TikTok in explaining his new position.
A year after voting to ban TikTok in the United States, U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt now says he was wrong. The Houston Republican said on Wednesday that he regretted voting for the legislation that ordered TikTok’s China -based owner to sell or face being removed from U.S. markets. “My vote was a mistake, but I am committed to learning from it,” Hunt said in a statement.
Donald Trump invites Greg Abbott to the White House Hunt, starting his second term in Congress, said he understands the “risks associated with foreign access to American data” that prompted the bill, but said that data is at risk in so many other ways already. TikTok initially shut down in the U.S.
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