Congress passes foreign aid bill, including TikTok sell-or-ban legislation
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
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Congress has passed legislation that puts the future of TikTok up in the air. USA TODAY Congress & Campaigns Reporter Riley Beggin breaks it down.
Israel slams northern Gaza, while Hamas calls for an escalation. Plus, campus protests continue.
The Department of Justice will pay nearly $139 million to survivors of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse in a settlement.
USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent David Jackson looks at former President Donald Trump's ongoing strategy of campaigning from the courthouse.
The Biden administration has announced a rule that would make millions of workers newly eligible for overtime pay.
Contact has been restored with NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe.
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| 0:10.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, April 24th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.5 | excerpt. Today Congress passes a bill that puts the future of Tic-Toc up in the air. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus the latest from Gaza and a look at how Donald Trump continues to campaign from the courthouse. |
| 0:34.0 | Congress has passed a long-awaited $95 billion foreign aid bill. |
| 0:39.0 | The Senate approved the package yesterday. |
| 0:41.0 | It'll set $60 billion to support Ukraine, $17 billion for Israel, $9 billion |
| 0:46.8 | in humanitarian aid for Gaza and elsewhere, and $8 billion for allies in the Indo-Pacific. |
| 0:52.4 | The move passed with an overwhelming |
| 0:54.0 | bipartisan vote. The package also includes legislation that would force Tik-Toc's |
| 0:58.6 | Chinese parent company to divest from the social media app or face an effective ban in the United States. |
| 1:05.2 | For more on that, I spoke with USA Today, Congress and Campaign's reporter, |
| 1:09.0 | Riley Beggin. |
| 1:10.0 | Riley, thanks for hopping on the excerpt today. |
| 1:11.8 | Hey, happy to be here. So, Riley, the for hopping on the excerpt today. Hey, happy to be here. |
| 1:13.4 | So, Raleigh, the Senate has passed this bill. |
| 1:16.1 | What does it do as it pertains to TikTok? |
| 1:18.3 | So this bill has been tweaked a little bit |
| 1:21.4 | since the last time I talked to you about it. It would give |
| 1:23.5 | Tik-Tok's parent company, Bite Dance, up to a year to sell the company. If they do not do that, |
| 1:30.8 | then there would be an effective ban in the United States that means |
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