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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Friday, March 8th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.

A bill that would ban

Tik-Toc in the US gains unanimous support in Congress. The House Energy

and Commerce Committee voted 50 to zero to advance the measure that would ban the widely popular app

from app stores in the US unless it's sold off from Chinese controlled parent

company bite dance. Tik-oc urged its 150 million U.S. users to contact their congressmen to protest the

crackdown on the app.

Congressional offices were flooded with calls up to 20 a minute, some even had to shut down their phone

system.

Washington State Representative Kathy McMorris Rogers supports the ban.

It is foreign adversaries that are using apps to collect, to manipulate, to surveil on Americans through the

data that they are collecting.

And we had a classified hearing yesterday and we're moving quickly on the floor because of the national

security threat that's posed by these apps. This is not a band, this would be a

choice for Tik-Tok, whether or not it remains controlled by the CCP through bite dance or if it decides to

divest and to continue to be operational in the United States of America.

But it's their choice.

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