Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, April 22nd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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So there was this big bill passed in the US House of Representatives over the

weekend that was largely about military aid to Israel, Ukraine, and

Taiwan and humanitarian aid for Gaza, but jammed into that bill was that whole

Tik-Tok divestiger legislation. Not exactly the same legislation we spoke about

last time because this gives Tik-Tok a longer period of time to divest itself.

But since this is part of those larger items that have serious political pressure behind

them, are we closer to a Tik-Tok showdown than ever?

Quoting the verge.

Due to the urgency of the funds, packaging the Tik-Tok bill with these measures

means that the Senate will need to consider the proposal more swiftly than it

would as a standalone bill. The earlier Tik-Tok bill which passed the House

352 to 65 just last month has so far lingered in the Senate with lawmakers there giving mixed

messages about its future. Notably Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria

Cantwell whose committee would normally take up the bill before it proceeds to the

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