An overwhelmingly bipartisan vote aiming to force the sale of the popular social media platform TikTok split the Massachusetts congressional delegation, and one member said the proposal “leapfrogged” other pressing issues on Capitol Hill.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 on Wednesday on a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to sell the app or face a ban in the United States.
While the margin was more than five to one in the House as a whole, the nine Massachusetts Democrats were divided nearly down the middle. Reps. Jake Auchincloss, Bill Keating, Stephen Lynch, Seth Moulton and Lori Trahan voted yes, while Reps. Katherine Clark, Jim McGovern, Richard Neal and Ayanna Pressley voted against the measure.
