Countless Congressional hearings in the techlash era (2016-present) on foreign election interference, S230, disinfo, privacy, competition, political bias, FTC, crypto, kids, media, copyright — and TikTok divestment is the first big bill to make it across the finish line. Amazing.

It's official - President Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting shot clock for the app to divest from it's Chinese owner. But the company is expected to sue and it could get tied up in the courts - more for POLITICO Pro subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

Biden says he will “address the American people” when he signs the national security supplemental “as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow”

News - Senate passed the foreign aid bill which includes a bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok within a year or face a ban in the U.S. passed in a 79-18 vote. POLITICO Pro subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

WATCH📺: Rebecca Kern joined CBC News: The National to provide insight on the U.S. House voting in favor of legislation that would force TikTok's parent company to sell within a year or face a ban.

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Scoop: TikTok is preparing to remove a key executive from his post, sources told Kurt Wagner Alex Barinka and me. The company has failed to convince US govt it was doing enough to stave off national security concerns about its connections to China.

FOREIGN AID UPDATE: Just now on the Senate floor, Schumer locked in an agreement to lay the House message before the Senate and file cloture on the bill, setting up the first roll-call vote on TUESDAY.

Senate adjourns till Tuesday.

The House TikTok bill just passed. Now what? politi.co/3Uo5KpE via Rebecca Kern

Her full statement - after previously raising constitutional concerns with the House TikTok bill

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For POLITICO Digital Future Daily - Gen-Z for Change is deploying its 1.8 million TikTok followers to push for progressive reforms and endorse Democratic candidates. But unlike last cycle, they've not backed Biden, saying he's backtracked to his past campaign promises politico.com/newsletters/di…

New: Maria Cantwell says she will meet Wedwith Chuck Schumer & Mark Warner on TikTok bill. She’s also going to meet with Commerce Cmte Dems on this issue, her data privacy bill & other topics

New Senator Ted Cruz on APRA “I cannot support any data privacy bill that empowers trial lawyers, strengthens Big Tech by imposing crushing new regulatory costs on upstart competitors or gives unprecedented power to the FTC to become referees of internet speech and DEI compliance. '

New for POLITICO - I found more than a dozen House Democrats with TikTok accounts voted for a forced sale of the app. My latest explains why Democratic strategists say Dem lawmakers and campaigns should still stay on the app to reach young voters ahead of the November elections.