Republicans overwhelmingly voted to ban TikTok against Donald Trump’s advice to save the social media platform.
The vast majority of House Republicans voted in favor of legislation that could ban TikTok in the United States, despite previous opposition from former President Donald Trump.
The House of Representatives voted 352-65 on legislation calling on ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to divest the application or face a possible ban in the U.S. Among Republicans, 15 voted no, as Trump urged, and 197 Republicans voted yes.
“There’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad with TikTok. But the thing I don’t like is that without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people along with a lot of the media,” Trump said.
Earlier this month, members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced legislation seeking to require TikTok to split for ByteDance or face a ban in the U.
