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Definitely makes sense to bundle banning an app with foreign aid, lol. Love how our government works. Now if someone opposes the tiktok ban, they're also voting no to the aid to ukraine which is just insane.
No, they were separate bills. The Ukraine aid was on a different bill than the TikTok one. There was roughly speaking, a Ukraine aid bill, a Taiwan aid bill, an Israel aid bill, and the tik tok bill. All were voted on and passed separately.
They're all in the same bill "H.R.8038 - 21st Century Peace through Strength Act" if you click that link in the post, that bill mentions the Ukraine aid as well as bytedance and tiktok
That bill does not have anything related to Ukraine in it, four separate bills, 8034, 8035, 8036, and 8038. Just all passed on the same day.
While HR 8038 bill has provisions about TikTok as you said, HR 8035 is the Ukraine bill.
https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-8035
The tik tok bill 8038 passed with a vote of 360-58 while the Ukraine bill 8035 passed with a vote of 311-112.
8034 has the Israel aid and 8036 has Taiwan and other countries.
The bill with the TikTok provisions did have some other things in it though like sanctions on Iranian oil, and giving more powers to seize Russian assets.
Oh I see that makes sense, yeah I misunderstood it. Think the "part of a package" portion tripped me up
Riders on the storm
They just needed to wait a year or two for TikTok to stop being cool with the kids and this wouldn't be such a big deal.
Of course, whatever the kids would move on to next will also be sending data to China. Just not for free.