House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said during an interview on Sunday that the U.S. Congress will “enforce the law” that requires TikTok to be fully divested from communist China or else be banned in the United States.
Johnson made the remarks when asked by Kristen Welker on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” if the U.S. was sending a “message of weakness” to China after President-elect Donald Trump signaled support for trying to save the app earlier in the day.
“No, I think we will enforce the law,” Johnson said. “And when President Trump issued the truth post and said, ‘Save TikTok,’ the way we read that is that he’s going to try to force along a true divestiture, changing of the hands, the ownership.”
“It’s not the platform that members of Congress are concerned about,” he noted. “It’s the Chinese Communist Party and their manipulation of the algorithms….
