Like many other offices on Capitol Hill recently, a Republican staffer picked up the phone on Tuesday and was subjected to the tearful pleas of an unlikely constituency.
“Just got a call from a group of crying middle schoolers,” a Republican aide told The Daily Beast, asking that their boss’s name not be identified.
The reason these desperate tweens—in additions to actual teens and senior citizens and many others—are besieging Congress with angry calls is simple: Lawmakers could soon ban from the U.S. TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app they use constantly.
