The House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 1 voted to advance a bill that would empower President Joe Biden to ban TikTok in the United States.
The committee voted 24-16 along party lines on Wednesday morning, sending the bill to the House floor where it would need approval by a majority of the chamber before moving to the Senate.
The measure, if eventually adopted by Congress, would be the most sweeping government action to date against the popular social media app, which security experts say can be used by the Chinese regime to spy on Americans or to promote pro-China influence campaigns or disinformation….