U.S. House votes to ban TikTok if Chinese owner doesnt sell app – National [Video]

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday in support of proposed legislation to force ByteDance, a Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell the app within six months or be banned from operating it in the country.

Lawmakers overwhelming voted across the aisle to pass the bill, with 352 for and 65 against.

Roughly 170 million Americans use the short video-sharing app. The vote does not mean the proposed law is now in effect, but marks a major milestone in the push to move it forward in the legislative process.

It’s the latest measures in a series of moves in Washington to respond to U.S. national security concerns about China, from connected vehicles to advanced artificial intelligence chips to cranes at U.S. ports.

Republicans and Democrats were mostly united behind the bill.

The Republican chair of the committee that developed the bill, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, speaking before the vote, …