Johnson says 'we will enforce the law' on TikTok ban, 2 GOP senators break with Trump on extension
Source: NBC News
Jan. 19, 2025, 9:33 AM EST / Updated Jan. 19, 2025, 1:51 PM EST
Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday dispelled the notion that President-elect Donald Trump would bring TikTok back early in his second term without the company's willingness to sell to a U.S.-based owner.
"I think we will enforce the law," Johnson told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, a day after Trump told NBC News that he would "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day extension to operate in the U.S.
Johnson's remarks come just hours after TikTok halted operations in the U.S., cutting user access to the app. At the same time, Apple, Google and Microsoft removed the app from app stores, preventing new users from downloading it.
A bipartisan bill passed last year and signed by President Joe Biden went into effect Sunday, effectively banning TikTok from the U.S. if the app, which is owned by the Chinese-based company ByteDance, isn't sold to a U.S.-based owner. In the last few months, TikTok made a last-ditch effort with the Supreme Court to save themselves from the ban, but the court upheld the law on Friday.
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Who is "we" Johnson? The Executive Branch is supposed to do the "enforcing".