President Joe Biden‘s decision to have his 2024 reelection campaign join TikTok on Super Bowl Sunday has prompted a legislative push to broaden a federal ban on the popular China-owned app that officials in Biden’s own administration have warned is a national security threat.
Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) told The Daily Wire on Thursday he is working on introducing a bill “just as soon as we possibly can” that aims to prohibit all federal employees with a security clearance from having TikTok on even their personal devices, and stipulate that no individual running for federal elected office can fundraise on the platform.
Biden already signed a federal ban on downloading TikTok onto any government phones, but Pfluger doesn’t think that’s enough. Warnings about the risk of Beijing collecting data from more than 100 million TikTok users in the United States from FBI Director…
