The House Homeland Security Committee chairman believes that TikTok’s recent proposals for remaining in the United States are insincere and fail to address its connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite the social media company’s attempts to allay mounting privacy and national security concerns arising from its link to the Chinese regime through parent company ByteDance, many US lawmakers remain skeptical. With 150 million US users, TikTok is one of the country’s most popular social media platforms, but alarm is being raised about how it could use the large amount of user data it collects. These concerns have now become a bipartisan issue, with both FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warning about the app’s security risks. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte recently signed a bill imposing a complete ban on TikTok, making it the first state in the US to do so.