Although the House passed legislation Wednesday that would force the sale of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quickly signaled that the upper chamber may slow consideration of the bill.
The legislation was approved by a rare bipartisan and unanimous vote March 7 in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The House then moved at breakneck speed to pass, by a 352-65 vote, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill was introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.
The legislation would force a Chinese company, ByteDance, to divest from the TikTok app if it is to continue operating in the United States because of concerns about the massively popular social media company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Critics argue that TikTok gathers…
