Over the weekend – by a final vote of 360-58 (and an amendment vote of 249-267), the U.S.
Over the weekend – by a final vote of 360-58 , the U.S. House of Representatives passed foreign aid bills that would bring financial assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, require the Treasury Department to submit a report on Iranian assets & sanction exemptions – and essentially ban TikTok in the United States unless Chinese owner ByteDance divests its stake in the app over growing concerns that TikTok has become a national security threat.
Different from last month's 'Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act' that was passed by the House and sent to the Senate, the bills passed over this past weekend saw the move against the social media app attached to important foreign aid support.
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