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# Biden Signs War Aid Measure That Includes TikTok Ban

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_Published 2024-04-24. TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance. On Wednesday, April 24, President Biden signed a bill into law that demands that the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance either sell TikTok, or face a nationwide ban._


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## Transcript

Good morning. What is a good day for Americus a good day for Europeans a good day for world peace. For real? This is consequential and House Representatives this weekend and by the Senate yesterday. It's going to make America safer. It's going to make the world safer and it continues America's leadership in the world and everyone knows it gives vital support to America's partners and like so they can defend themselves against threats to their sovereignty and the lives and freedom of their citizens and it's an investment around security because when our allies are stronger and I want to make this phone again, and again on our allies are stronger.

We are stronger. It's a path to my desk. It was a difficult path and should have been easier and should have gotten there sooner. But in the end we did in America always does we Rose to the moment? Came together and we got it done. Now we need to move fast and we are I'm making sure the shipment start right away next 2 hours. Literally the two hours. We were going to begin sending equipment to Ukraine for air defense Munitions for artillery for Rocket systems and armored vehicles know this package is literally investment. Not only when you crank security, but in Europe security my commitment to Israel, I want to make clear again as Ironclad as security of Israel as critical.

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Jeffrey's leader Schumer McConnell. They don't always agree. I want a matters most they stepped up and did the right thing and I mean it sincerely history will remember this time history will remember this moment. All talk about how dysfunctional things are washing it when you look over the past three years. We see the time and again on the critical issues. We've actually come together.

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