A House bill passed this week concerning TikTok wasn’t explicitly about banning the company in the United States, but instead focuses on compelling the social media giant to separate from ByteDance, its China-linked parent company, Rep. Tim Walberg, a member of one of the committees working on the bill, told Newsmax Saturday. 

“We believe in the free market,” the Michigan Republican said on Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “We believe in capitalism; we believe in choices. But we also believe as members of Congress that we are responsible for protecting our country and its constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

TikTok, he added, “has become an enemy because of its close ties with its parent company and that firm’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.”

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