A sweeping spending bill calls for federal government employees to be banned from using TikTok on government-owned devices, the latest in a series of steps by governments to try to curb the reach of the popular Chinese-owned short-video app.
to fund the U.S. government through most of 2023. Top Democrats and Republicans unveiled the bill early Tuesday, and Congress needs to pass the measure by Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown.
a bill to prohibit TikTok on government devices. Sen. Josh Hawley , who introduced the legislation, called TikTok “a Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party.”“It’s a major security risk to the United States, and until it is forced to sever ties with China completely, it has no place on government devices,” he said in a statement last week. “States across the U.S.on government devices. It’s time for Joe Biden and the Democrats to help do the same.
TikTok is already banned from government devices at the White House and federal agencies, including the Homeland Security and State departments. And a growing number of states, particularly Republican-leading ones, have banned the app out of fear that Chinese companies could be tracking Americans.A TikTok spokesperson told The Washington Post last week that Hawley’s legislation “does nothing to advance U.S. national security interests.
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