By Gabe Kaminsky (Washington Examiner)
A lobbyist for TikTok scored a meeting with a top Biden adviser as lawmakers pushed to have the Chinese-government-linked app banned in the United States, records show.
President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion spending package in December 2022 that included the government banning TikTok from federal devices, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are now working with the Biden administration to restrict its U.S. operations further. In November 2022, TikTok lobbyist John Breaux met with John Podesta, Biden’s senior clean energy adviser who has been slammed for his links to the Chinese Communist Party, White House visitor logs show.