WASHINGTON, DC (Michigan News Source) – At the end of Wednesday, it was a big thumbs up to the legislation that could ban TikTok from America unless China’s tech giant ByteDance decides to hand over the reins of the social media app to someone else.

The bill, dubbed the “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” requires ByteDance to divest TikTok within six months or face being banned from American soil. It received huge bipartisan support, passing in the House 352-65.

Tlaib is the only Michigan representative who didn’t vote yes on the legislation.

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In Michigan, all of the state’s representatives voted yes for the bill except Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib who didn’t vote.

Voting yes on the Republican side were Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar, Bill Huizenga, Tim Walberg, Lisa McClain, and John James. Voting yes on the Democratic side were Hillary Scholten, Debbie Dingell, Ellissa Slotkin, Dan Kildee, Haley Stevens and Shri Thanedar.

The politicians behind the legislation are Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D- IL) from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party who introduced the bill on March 5th. Swift action followed, with the Energy and Commerce Committee giving it a solid thumbs up with a unanimous 50-0 vote two days later.

Mike Johnson (R-LA), the House Speaker had thrown his weight behind the bill and said to reporters last week, “It’s an important bipartisan measure to take on China, our largest geopolitical foe, which is actively undermining our economy and security.”

Bill gets support of House but Senate might be a different story.

The digital battleground now moves to the Senate where concerns including freedom of speech are throwing shade on the victory party. Some senators, like Mark Warner (D-VA), Maria Cantwell (D- WA), and Rand Paul (R-KY), are side-eyeing the bill, questioning the legality of putting a bullseye on a single social media app.

Paul, clearly not holding back, calls the whole thing nonsensical. “It makes no sense whatsoever,” he scoffs, arguing that by banning TikTok, the U.S. risks looking like the very same communist tyrants they’re trying to one-up.

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Paul, who serves on the Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, said to NewsNation’s Leland Vittert, “Well, there is this little sticking point, and it’s called the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. You can’t just pass a law and take someone’s property.”

Regardless of the fun that teenagers have on the app and the business uses that companies have for it, FBI Director Christopher Wray has said over and over again that TikTok is a threat to national security including recently at the annual Worldwide Threats Assessment hearing.

Despite warnings, politicians still use the app including the president and Michigan’s governor.

However, regardless of the dangers, Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is still using the platform – and so is President Joe Biden, who created a TikTok account in February. Many other politicians use it as well. Not to mention millions of voters.

Trump not coming out in support of the legislation.

Also expressing concern about the TikTok legislation is former President Donald J. Trump but for a different reason. He said on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday, “Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people.”

When Trump was president, he had threatened to ban TikTok. Many in the media have speculated that Trump has another reason for not going along with the TikTok-ban craze currently gripping other politicians, including President Biden, who said he’d sign the legislation: votes.

Amidst a wave of voter discontent, particularly among the youth demographic crucial to Biden’s support base, the decision to champion TikTok appears a clever one for the former president’s election strategy. By not coming out against the social media platform, Trump may resonate with constituents angered by the prospect of its shutdown, potentially capitalizing on their dissatisfaction expressed when inundating Congress with calls.

Michigan legislators discuss their votes.

Discussing their votes on the legislation, Michigan legislators reached out to the press and their constituents. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in a press call on Wednesday said, “We’ve gotten a ton of calls just like every congressional office that I know of from kids as young as nine, calling us and saying please don’t ban TikTok. No one wants to ban TikTok; we just don’t want the Chinese Communist Party to have access to millions and millions of individual data sets from our citizens.”

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI) said in a statement, ”This strong bipartisan legislation is an important step forward in making sure social media apps owned by foreign adversaries are prohibited from doing business in America. I am proud to support this bill to protect national security, and the Senate should pass it immediately.”

Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) said in a statement, “This legislation is a responsible and targeted effort to protect the data privacy of Americans and our children from foreign adversaries such as the Chinese Communist Party, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.”

TikTok speaks out about the bill.

A TikTok spokesperson said after the vote was passed, “This process was secret and the bill was jammed through for one reason: it’s a ban. We are hopeful that the Senate will consider the facts, listen to their constituents, and realize the impact on the economy, seven million small businesses, and the 170 million Americans who use our service.”

And on Thursday, Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry, criticized the U.S. for adopting what he termed as “robber’s logic” towards the app, which boasts 170 million users in America. Wang remarked, “The mentality of seizing others’ assets upon witnessing their success is evident.”