TikTok says it will sue if bill that forces owner to sell or be banned passes

A TikTok official say that if President Biden sign into law a bill that will effectively ban the popular app in the U.S. the company will challenge the matter in court.

Micheal Beckermann, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, made the remark in a staff memo that also said “at the stage that the bill is signed, we will move to the courts for a legal challenge,” according to Bloomberg.

The bill is an amendment attached to a $95 billion foreign-aid package H.R. 8038, which the House passed on Saturday.

The amendment requires TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., to divest its ownership in the app or be banned from the lucrative U.S. market.

Federal lawmakers want the app banned over national security concerns and are trying to effectively ban it by stopping its sales on U.S. app stores.

President Joe Biden on Friday told reporters that he would sign the legislation.