Within moments of the House passing a bill to force TikTok’s sale, Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, threw their support behind the bill, Punchbowl News reports.
“This is an important development for the measure’s outlook in the Senate… Rubio has long favored banning TikTok, but Warner had expressed potential constitutional concerns.
Warner proposed having the Commerce Department look into the issue first in his own TikTok bill last year. But both senators are now backing the House legislation.”Said Warner and Rubio in a joint statement: “We are united in our concern about the national security threat posed by TikTok.”