The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he opposes a Republican bill that would give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps.
The committee opened debate on Tuesday on the measure that Republican committee chair Michael McCaul sponsored to grant the administration new powers to ban the ByteDance-owned app that is used by more than 100 million Americans. The committee is expected to vote on the measure later on Tuesday.
"Many Americans do not realize one of the greatest surveillance efforts from has been silently gathering personal data in their pockets," McCaul said, referring to TikTok. Representative Gregory Meeks said he strongly opposed the legislation, saying it would "damage our allegiances across the globe, bring more companies into China's sphere, destroy jobs here in the United States and undercut core American values of free speech and free enterprise."
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