China hawks in Congress are standing behind their law to force TikTok to divest or be banned in the U.S. after the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional Friday. But they are hopeful the president-elect will cut a deal to avert the app shutting down.
With the TikTok ban set to hit the U.S. on Sunday, some government officials are working to avert it. Here's the latest.
The irony: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) — who Trump nicknamed “snow woman” after she famously launched her presidential campaign in a snowstorm — is the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and will be tasked with overseeing the move to an indoor inauguration ceremony.
On Friday, the high court issued a ruling upholding the law that Congress passed to require TikTok to be sold to a U.S. owner or face a ban on January 19th.
Concerns that the Chinese government could manipulate content and gain access to sensitive user data through the app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, prompted Congress to pass ...