USA Today’s Chambers: Even if Biden Is on TikTok, He’d Sign Bill to Ban Them

BREAM: “There is also this. The president — according to Congressman Gallagher, he told me the White House is on board with this, but they’ve also joined TikTok, the campaign has. The New York Times notes this: ‘Biden the president wants to curb TikTok, but Biden the candidate embraces its stars,’ and they quote a former tech advisor for the Biden Administration saying, ‘From a national security perspective, the campaign joining TikTok was definitely not a good look. It was condoning the use of a platform that the administration and everyone in D.C. recognizes is a national problem. And, Francesca, they had TikTok influencers at the White House to watch the State of the Union Thursday night.”
CHAMBERS: “This is the realities of governing versus campaigning when you need the youth vote in the upcoming presidential election, and that is where they are and that’s where the Biden campaign has been taking its message. But President Biden himself has said that he would sign this bill if it does pass Congress. It does have bipartisan support, so if it were to get to his desk, you would see them do that. And the White House has previously said it’s up to Congress to pass something like that. They had not found a way, I guess, to be able to get around what Trump could not get around either, which is how the president could ban it even if have wanted to. The ball is in Congress’s court now.”