Extend the TikTok Deadline Act: What It Does

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Introduced, doneJanuary 15, 2025
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What Congress Said

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Republicans12 spoke

The election results were overwhelming; President Trump has a mandate to secure our borders. Senate Republicans will stand up to help him do just that. The Laken Riley Act is our first step to be able to help him do that.
Pete RickettsR-NE, Senate, January 15, 2025
Yesterday I came to the floor of the U.S. Senate to talk about the importance of promptly confirming President Trump's Cabinet.
John CornynR-TX, Senate, January 15, 2025
As the bill was being considered by a House committee, TikTok sent push notifications to its users demanding that they call into Congress and express opposition to the bill.
Tom CottonR-AR, Senate, January 15, 2025

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For the safety and security of our Nation, Pete deserves a swift, swift confirmation. I am going to vote for him to be the next Secretary of Defense, and I believe that vote is going to happen soon.
John BarrassoR-WY, Senate, January 15, 2025
Every single poll showed that this was one of the priority issues that every single American was thinking about.
James LankfordR-OK, Senate, January 15, 2025
We also know that UNRWA has indoctrinated Palestinian children with schools that glorify terrorism and promote violent hatred of Jews, allowed Hamas to store weapons in their buildings, and provided support and aid to the terror group.
Marsha BlackburnR-TN, Senate, January 15, 2025
Our Nation, this body, and the American people are all too familiar with stories like Laken Riley's, the 22- year-old nursing student beaten to death by an illegal immigrant, one who was already in police custody in New York City before being let go.
Joni ErnstR-IA, Senate, January 15, 2025
So this bill is one of many steps we should take to reverse the Biden administration's open border policies. Stop the madness. Stop the madness. I plead with my colleagues to support the Laken Riley Act. We should pass it now.
Todd YoungR-IN, Senate, January 15, 2025
This week, the Senate is proud to take another step forward toward securing our southern border as we consider the Laken Riley Act. I want to extend my deep gratitude to Senator Katie Britt and Senator Ted Budd for their leadership in bringing this bill forward.
Shelley Moore CapitoR-WV, Senate, January 15, 2025
Under this bill, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be required to detain illegal immigrants who have committed theft-related offenses and issue an immigration detainer request to local law enforcement for illegal aliens who have committed related crimes.
John HoevenR-ND, Senate, January 15, 2025
This bill would require ICE to issue detainers and take into custody illegal aliens who commit crimes like theft and shoplifting.
Ted BuddR-NC, Senate, January 15, 2025
Filing cloture does not signal an end to our amendment process. We have been having constructive conversations all day. Those yielded the votes this evening, and I expect those conversations to continue tonight and into tomorrow so we can vote on more amendments this week.
John ThuneR-SD, Senate, January 15, 2025

Democrats13 spoke

To pay for their tax scam, Republicans propose slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, ripping away food security and other supports that parents rely on to feed their children and keep a roof over their head, and ending support for clean energy, which would only add more fuel to the fires raging across our country.
Edward J. MarkeyD-MA, Senate, January 15, 2025
There were a few individual tax cuts in this bill. If you look at the bill from 2017, it was mostly corporate tax cuts. There were a few, in that pie chart, individual tax cuts. But they were heavily tilted toward the wealthy, as my colleagues have described.
Tim KaineD-VA, Senate, January 15, 2025
After months of swearing up and down that they were focused on lowering the price of eggs, the price of groceries, the price of gas, the price of insurance--that was what the last election was about, right? It was about inflation. It was about the amount that people were paying. That is what the last election was about.
Brian SchatzD-HI, Senate, January 15, 2025

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I just can't believe we are talking about something that nobody wants, right? That is what this comes down to. The No. 1 priority for Republicans is extending and likely expanding a tax cut that benefits the wealthiest 1 percent, .1 percent in this country at a rate that dwarfs--dwarfs--the help for anyone else.
Christopher MurphyD-CT, Senate, January 15, 2025
They are going to pay for this, as we have heard time and time again, by eliminating programs that support our
Ben Ray LujánD-NM, Senate, January 15, 2025
Instead, my colleagues now--my Republican colleagues--have come up with two options for selling this legislation to the American people-- again, this legislation that will mainly benefit the very wealthy in this country, the billionaires--legislation that is going to add $4 trillion to the deficit.
Catherine Cortez MastoD-NV, Senate, January 15, 2025
And so the stunning thing for me--and this is where I want you to--I think that was one of the most powerful points I heard. It was when people were coming to me and saying 28 percent, 27 percent, 26 percent. The biggest corporations were saying it publicly. I was reading it in the newspaper.
Cory A. BookerD-NJ, Senate, January 15, 2025
What is next? Then we say: Hey, we have got to cut spending. What spending do we have to cut? Healthcare, the ACA premium support.
Peter WelchD-VT, Senate, January 15, 2025
As it is my first time addressing you from the Senate floor since I began my second term, I would like to start by saying how grateful I am that Nevadans have put their trust in me to serve another 6 years in the U.S. Senate.
Jacky RosenD-NV, Senate, January 15, 2025
I respect that colleagues on both sides of the aisle have expressed their intention to vote for the Laken Riley bill and to advance it. I have not yet made any such commitment out of concern about the unintended consequences of several provisions of this bill.
Christopher A. CoonsD-DE, Senate, January 15, 2025
Let's talk about Trump's betrayal of middle-class America. In 2017, many of us warned that Trump's tax giveaway was a disaster for working families. It was a giveaway to billionaires. It was a giveaway to powerful corporations.
Jeff MerkleyD-OR, Senate, January 15, 2025
Half the benefits go to the top 5 percent. If you are making over a million bucks, it is a $78,000 tax cut; if you are making 50 grand, 273 bucks. Thanks a bunch. And the hit is going to come to regular Americans through Medicare, through Medicaid, and through support for their healthcare.
Sheldon WhitehouseD-RI, Senate, January 15, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) is necessarily absent.
Richard J. DurbinD-IL, Senate, January 15, 2025

Independents1 spoke

That is why I have filed an amendment to the Laken Riley bill that we are debating this week that will do just that. I hope very much that the leaders agree on allowing that amendment to be debated and voted upon. Let me very briefly describe what this amendment does in terms of reforming the H-1B Program.
Bernard SandersI-VT, Senate, January 15, 2025

Timeline

Jan 15, 2025Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
Jan 15, 2025SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jan 15, 2025Introduced
Jan 15, 2025Committee

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