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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he received a voicemail in which someone threatened to “find” and “shoot” him over a potential TikTok ban Wednesday. “This is a voicemail my office received last night,” Tillis said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “TikTok’s misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their…

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, is condemning former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for his effort to purchase the social media platform TikTok.  “I don’t see how America will be any more secure if the next owner of TikTok is a MAGA Trump crony backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund,”…

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, on Sunday called the lobbying campaign against legislation that could ban TikTok “disgusting,” pointing specifically to the involvement of former members of Congress. “There is an unprecedented lobbying campaign. They’re really weaponizing the swamp against legislative action,” Gallagher said in…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said the TikTok bill passed by the House last week isn't effectively addressing the problem. Khanna, who voted against the bill, argued on ABC’s “This Week” that while the two national security issues cited in the bill are “legitimate,” the legislation still does not address them. He said the two issues at…

The leader of TikTok expressed dissatisfaction after the House approved a bill on Wednesday that could prohibit the well-liked social media app and urged users to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to vote against the bill, which now goes to the upper chamber. In a video shared on TikTok, CEO Shou Chew…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia on Wednesday that the House will 'apply every amount of pressure' on the Senate to approve a bill that could ban TikTok, shortly after the House passed the legislation with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) stated that her decision to vote against the bill on Wednesday was not influenced by former President Trump’s opposition to a bill that could ban TikTok. “I haven’t talked to Donald Trump about the bill. These were my own conclusions, and I made the vote based on my own conclusions and…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance should be forced to sell the app but argued that the potential for a ban under current legislation is too “extreme.” Khanna voted against a bill Wednesday that would require ByteDance to divest from TikTok within 165 days or face a ban in U.S. app…

Fifteen House Republicans voted against a bill on Wednesday that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest from the popular app or face a U.S. ban. The bill, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, had faced opposition from former President Trump in recent days. Despite previously vowing to ban TikTok and issuing an order…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) cited her previous ban on Twitter, the platform now known as X, in opposing legislation that could ban TikTok on Wednesday. “I rise today as the only member of Congress that has ever been banned by social media,” Greene said on the House floor, as the lower chamber prepared to…