We don’t see a whole lot of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C., these days. But there is one area where something of a bipartisan consensus is seemingly forming: the push to ban TikTok. There’s just one problem: While China hawks in the GOP and establishment Democratic technocrats within the Biden administration both have valid critiques of TikTok, their push to ban it outright is deeply flawed.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday introduced legislation to prohibit bank executives from serving on the boards of regional Federal Reserve banks tasked with supervising their firm. Lawmakers have expressed outrage that former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Gregory Becker served on the board of directors at the San Francisco Federal Reserve, which failed to address...
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) slammed TikTok at a House committee’s hearing on the platform on Thursday, telling CEO Shou Chew that “you damn well know” that the platform is unable to protect its U.S. users. Cammack’s panning of the platform and Chew came after she had a video that had been posted on TikTok shown...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) for the first time on Thursday addressed a claim by former President Trump that he would be arrested in connection to an investigation into a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, calling it the creation of a “false expectation.” Bragg, in response to demands by...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a Thursday interview on The Hill’s Rising said he wouldn't vaccinate his own children for COVID-19 out of concerns about the risk of heart inflammation. Paul, a vocal critic of pandemic policies who frequently battled with former White House adviser Anthony Fauci during the Trump and Biden administrations, said the...
A quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln about the fate of America reads, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” The world is increasingly dangerous. China is courting Russia in a new alliance and extending its sphere of influence into South...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) criticized the Justice Department Thursday for not moving quick enough into its investigation of former President Trump regarding his attempts at overturning the the results of the 2020 election. "I do share the concern that the Justice Department should have moved on this case — if they are going to move...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a thug” and “a war criminal.” “Governor @RonDeSantisFL description of Putin being a thug and a war criminal is spot on. What do you call a national leader who uses their army to kidnap children of a...
As pressure builds for a national ban on the video-based social media platform TikTok, the company’s leadership is in a full court press to persuade lawmakers against taking sweeping action to restrict access to the application. And as Congress weighs security concerns with the Chinese-linked social media company, its CEO Shou Zi Chew is being...