Sen­ate warms to forced sale of Tik­Tok fol­low­ing House tweak

Senate warms to forced sale of TikTok following House tweak

The Sen­ate is new­ly recep­tive to leg­is­la­tion man­dat­ing the sale of Tik­Tok after the House tweaked the bill to give its Chi­nese own­ers more “run­way” to find a buy­er.
The House passed a bill forc­ing the sale of the pop­u­lar social app in March, fueled by con­cerns over spy­ing by the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment, but the push hit a wall in the Sen­ate as law­mak­ers raised con­cerns over tar­get­ing a sin­gle com­pa­ny in leg­is­la­tion. 
The top Demo­c­rat and Repub­li­can on the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee sup­port­ed the bill, but Sen. Maria Cantwell (D‑WA), whose com­mit­tee has juris­dic­tion, expressed reluc­tance. She pre­vi­ous­ly intro­duced a com­pet­ing mea­sure that would have giv­en the Com­merce Depart­ment the abil­i­ty to ban for­eign-owned apps.
The House bill, which passed in a 352–65 vote, would have giv­en ByteDance, the par­ent com­pa­ny of Tik­Tok, six months to final­ize a sale before a nation­wide ban went into effect, a win­dow that Cantwell warned was too short.
Mean­while, Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader Chuck Schumer (D‑NY) declined to say whether he would give the bill a floor vote.
The House’s deci­sion to tuck the divest­ment bill into a …