Once Biden signs the bill, the company will have 270 days to sell the app.
The House of Representatives passed a series of bills to send foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian funding for the Gaza Strip.
The House of Representatives passed a series of bills over the weekend to send foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian funding for the Gaza Strip. Tucked into the foreign aid bills was text forcing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the social
media service to an American one or face a ban.
The House of Representatives passed a similar bill in March, forcing ByteDance to withdraw from the project within 180 days. On the website, the new version of the bill gives ByteDance 270 days to divest.
The bill’s passage in the Senate came after months of lobbying against it by TikTok – with the app prompting its users to contact their representatives to express their dissatisfaction, and its CEO personally traveling to Washington to try to stop the bill’s progress.
Earlier in April, Politico reported that Chinese embassy officials met with congressional staff to express their displeasure with the legislation.
