Biden Signs War Aid Measure That Includes TikTok Ban

TIME

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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00:00 >> Good morning.

00:01 >> Good morning, sir.

00:03 >> It's a good day for America. It's a good day for Europe.

00:05 And it's a good day for world peace, for real.

00:07 This is consequential.

00:09 I just signed into law the national security package

00:12 that was passed by the House of Representatives

00:14 this weekend and by the Senate yesterday.

00:17 It's going to make America safer.

00:20 It's going to make the world safer.

00:22 And it continues America's leadership in the world,

00:24 and everyone knows it.

00:26 Gives vital support to America's partners

00:29 and so they can defend themselves

00:30 against threats to their sovereignty

00:32 and to the lives and freedom of their citizens.

00:35 And it's an investment in our own security

00:38 because when our allies are stronger --

00:40 and I want to make this current again and again --

00:42 when our allies are stronger, we are stronger.

00:44 It's a path to my desk. It was a difficult path.

00:48 It should have been easier and should have gotten there sooner.

00:51 But in the end, we did what America always does.

00:54 We rose to the moment.

00:56 We came together and we got it done.

00:59 Now we need to move fast, and we are.

01:03 I'm making sure the shipments start right away.

01:06 In the next few hours -- literally, in a few hours,

01:09 we're going to begin sending in equipment to Ukraine

01:13 for air defense munitions, for artillery,

01:16 for rocket systems, and armored vehicles.

01:18 You know, this package is literally an investment,

01:23 not only in Ukraine's security, but in Europe's security.

01:27 My commitment to Israel, I want to make clear again,

01:30 is ironclad.

01:31 The security of Israel is critical.

01:33 It will always make sure that Israel has what it needs

01:36 to defend itself against Iran and terrorists it supports.

01:39 And with this aid, the United States is going to help

01:42 replenish Israel's air defense and provide other critical events

01:46 so Iran can never carry out the destruction

01:48 it intended with its attack 10 days ago.

01:51 But at the same time, this bill significantly --

01:55 significantly increases humanitarian assistance

01:58 we're sending to the innocent people of Gaza

02:00 who are suffering badly.

02:02 They're suffering the consequences of this war

02:03 that Hamas started.

02:05 And we've been working intently for months

02:07 to get as much aid to Gaza as possible.

02:10 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson,

02:11 Leader Jeffries, Leader Schumer, McConnell --

02:15 they don't always agree, but when it matters most,

02:19 they stepped up and did the right thing.

02:21 And I mean this sincerely -- history will remember this time.

02:24 History will remember this moment.

02:27 For all the talk about how dysfunctional things

02:29 are in Washington,

02:30 when you look over the past three years,

02:32 we see that time and again on the critical issues,

02:34 we've actually come together.

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