The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on bipartisan legislation relating to the Chinese-owned app TikTok.
Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act last Tuesday. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
“My No. 1 take-away is that this is the first true attempt at a legislative solution to the TikTok problem that has a legitimate chance of succeeding,” Jeff Smith, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
“We know TikTok is a propaganda and…