McConnell calls on Congress to give House-passed TikTok bill 'urgent attention'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed his support on Monday for a House-passed bill to push the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest or face being banned in the United States, although the path forward is still unclear in the upper chamber.

“This is a matter that deserves Congress’s urgent attention. And I’ll support commonsense bipartisan steps to take one Beijing’s favorite tools of coercion and espionage off the table,” McConnell said, speaking on the Senate floor on Monday evening.