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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has thrown her weight behind efforts to ban TikTok from federal employees phone by including the provision in the omnibus spending bill .

A bill prohibiting federal employees from using the Chinese-owned short video sharing app TikTok on equipment owned by the government was approved by the US Senate late on Wednesday by voice vote.

The law aims to protect Americans by blocking and prohibiting all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and several other foreign countries of concern.

Republicans long have distrusted TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media company that appears to collect massive amounts of data on its users.

Announcements issued on Tuesday publicized bipartisan efforts to ban TikTok from operating in the United States. Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and

After a large swath of Republican governors took action to ban the social media app TikTok at the beginning of December, three more states have joined the movement.

Sen. Marco Rubio and other lawmakers are calling for the ban of social media app, TikTok, whose Chinese parent company is ByteDance, in the United States.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Fox Business on Wednesday it was not a matter of if TikTok would be banned in the United States, but when.

The popular social media app TikTok would be banned in the U.S. under a new bipartisan bill introduced in both houses of Congress this week.

Senator Marco Rubio has introduced bipartisan legislation to ban TikTok from operating in the United States. The legislation would protect Americans by blocking and prohibiting all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China