CNN analyst predicts which issue is about to be 'the first big divide between Republicans'

Donald Trump has downplayed the national security threat posed by the social media app TikTok, and an analyst said the issue could be the first significant split between the president and congressional Republicans.

The newly inaugurated president has directed the Justice Department to pause enforcement of a ban passed by Congress of the Chinese-owned platform, questioning whether China would be "spying ... on young kids watching crazy videos," but a CNN commentator argued that few lawmakers agreed with his position.

"By the way, Trump says that he doesn't understand why people should be concerned, but Republicans in Congress, and not just Republicans, Democrats in Congress," said Michael Warren, a senior editor for The Dispatch, "thinks that it's a problem. I do think that we could see the first real big divide between the Republican Congress and Donald Trump on this. I think they're going to do it in their own way to be a little gingerly about it. They don't want to upset this new president too much. But Republicans in Congress feel very strongly about this, and I think they're going to push back and try to find a way to get him to reverse this or to to to stop the executive order, and there's a good political reason for him to do that. As we said, bipartisan – 80 percent of Congress voted for it."

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The legislation that was supposed to go into effect Sunday would ban TikTok unless its parent company ByteDance can find a U.S.-based buyer, so the newly inaugurated president seems to be flouting a law.

"Not only is it a law that passed on a bipartisan, overwhelming basis, but it was upheld by the Supreme Court unanimously," said Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball, "and there is not a clause in the law that says the president could just cancel it ... There has not been a lot of evidence to date that they actually want to sell the app and relinquish control for the Chinese government, so, you know, this is going to be this is going to be a real problem if he wants to continue down this road, both for how he is able to get his way against the other two branches of government, and also for just the the underlying issue, which let's not forget, you know, although TikTok is popular, the TikTok ban is also popular. A majority of Americans supported it, at least when it happened."

"Now, maybe that's changed now that Trump has switched and a lot of these members are afraid of their constituents," Ball added. "I mean, some crazy teenager actually tried to burn down a congressional office over the TikTok ban, so there is a level of fear that their constituents are so crazy because because TikTok makes people crazy."

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