House Speaker McCarthy says lawmakers will be “moving forward’ with legislation to address national security concerns surrounding TikTok.
, the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act, or the RESTRICT Act, would give the commerce secretary broad power to regulate tech produced by six countries that have adversarial relationships with the U.S.: China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela.the bill, calling it “a systematic framework for addressing technology-based threats to the security and safety of Americans.
Although the bill doesn’t explicitly mention TikTok, the senators who introduced it repeatedly referred to concerns that the social video app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, poses a national security threat by giving Beijing aDuring an interview on CBS on Sunday, Warner said the bill has the support of 22 senators, with 11 Democrats and 11 Republicans backing it.
“We’ve had strong interest from the House,” Warner said, when asked how likely it is that his legislation passes in the divided congress. “I think they wanted to get through their hearing, and while I appreciated Mr. Chew’s testimony, he just couldn’t answer the basic questions at the end of the day."
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