Members of Congress have begun to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s decision on the controversial sale-or-ban bill, with opinions varying across the aisle. Republican senator Tom Cotton, a known China hawk, unsurprisingly praised the ruling on social media, denouncing TikTok as a “communist spy app.”
Mark Warner, a Democratic senator from Virginia, said he was glad to see the Supreme Court hold up the legality of the sale but emphasized that he doesn’t want to see TikTok ultimately banned.
On whether President-elect Donald Trump should enforce the TikTok ban, Punchbowl News reports that Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, “I would think so.”
But the new head of the Senate seemed in favor of a sale. “Hopefully they’ll figure out a way to get it sold,” he said.
Massachusetts senator Ed Markey, who has pushed for an extension of the sale deadline with his fellow Democratic senators Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen, criticized the Supreme Court’s move. “I am deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the TikTok ban. I am not done fighting to pass my 270 day extension. We need more time,” he wrote on social media.
