Some GOP lawmakers are grumbling over President Trump’s “Kitchen Cabinet” of billionaire allies such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who were featured prominently at Trump’s inauguration last week.
The situation previews a series of looming clashes between Trump’s personal interests and lawmakers’ professed principles.
Rep. Glenn Grothman was among the lawmakers who voted in favor of a bill requiring TikTok to divest its Chinese ownership.
He previously floated a joint venture, saying that the US should be entitled to half of the app.
One of TikTok's top investors is billionaire Jeff Yass, Pennsylvania's richest man and a GOP megadonor. There is no indication yet whether Yass will attend Trump's inauguration.
ANALYSIS: The chaotic unbanning of TikTok signals a new political fusion between corporate power and American authoritarianism — and Silicon Valley stands eager to serve, writes Io Dodds
In a statement, senators disputed President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension to bring the app back.
If Trump can upend the TikTok ban through secret deals and an impending executive order, what’s stopping him from doing the same to other valid federal laws?
"There's no legal basis for any kind of 'extension'" to keep the popular social media app running, warned GOP Sens. Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts on Sunday.
Lose/lose: All-out economic war would have been pretty damaging to both sides, given Colombia is both utterly reliant on exports to the U.S., and also one of the few Latin American countries with which America actually has a trade surplus.
From declaring “emergencies” to pardoning the domestic terrorists who assaulted police in his name, they argue, the president is acting like an autocrat.