Pelosi backs adding TikTok government device ban to funding bill

FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announces that she will remain in Congress but will not run for re-election as Speaker after Republicans were projected to win control of the House of Representatives, on the floor of the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supports adding legislation passed by the Senate this week, which would bar federal government employees from using Chinese-owned TikTok on government-owned devices, to a government funding bill.

A spokesman for Pelosi confirmed a report by news website Punchbowl that she supports including the TikTok provision in legislation to fund the government that the House of Representatives is set to take up next week.