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“It’s really a perfect storm,” said Jennie Murray, president of the National Immigration Forum, a group that advocates for bipartisan immigration policies.

On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the law, passed by bipartisan majorities last April, largely due to concerns that the Chinese government used the platform to spy on Americans.

Last year, the House and Senate by large bipartisan votes approved the shut-down law, citing national security fears that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, was gathering data on tens of millions of Americans.

The bill easily passed the House Financial Services Committee with bipartisan support last Congress, but was pulled from consideration before getting a vote by the full House.

The bill was introduced Thursday with bipartisan support and might be the farthest along of all the early legislation.