Senate to the House of Representatives and to President Joseph Biden's desk for a signature Along with $95B in aid to Ukraine, Israel & Gaza, and Taiwan & the Indo-Pacific, the bill also put TikTok owner ByteDance on the clock – it now has 9 months (possibly 12, at the POTUS's discretion) to divest from[...]
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House of Representatives passed foreign aid bills that will bring financial assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, require the Treasury Department to submit a report on Iranian assets & sanction exemptions – and essentially ban TikTok in the United States unless Chinese owner ByteDance divests its stake in the app over growing concerns that TikTok[...]
Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted 352-65 to pass the "Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" – a bill that received strong bipartisan support If eventually signed into law, the bill would make it illegal for TikTok to be distributed or hosted in the U.S (impacting 170+ million Americans) unless Chinese owner[...]
Earlier today, we learned that FOX "News" chief political anchor Bret Baier will conduct a joint interview with the folks looking to replace history-making Kevin McCarthy's departure (McCarthy being "history-making" for being the first House of Representatives Speaker to be booted from the job, courtesy of Florida Rep Matt Gaetz – McCarthy's fellow GOPer) That[...]
While the 2018 midterm elections proved to be a huge win for Democrats overall and for 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in particular, 2019 hasn't gotten off to a smooth start Recently-reopened parts of the goverment are threatened with yet another shutdown in only a matter of days – just weeks after the[...]