The White House said Tuesday it backs a bill in Congress to give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chineseowned video app TikTok and other foreign technologies that could pose security threats.News 

The White House is backing a bill that would give the Biden administration more power to ban TikTok

The White House announced Tuesday that it supports a congressional bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban the Chinese video app TikTok and other foreign technologies that could pose security threats.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the bipartisan bill, backed by a dozen senators, “would strengthen our ability to address discrete risks from individual transactions and systemic risks from certain classes of transactions involving countries of concern in sensitive technology sectors.”

“We look forward to working with both Democrats and Republicans on this bill and urge Congress to act quickly to send it to the president’s desk,” he said.

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