Two prominent U.S. lawmakers, including Indian-American Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, have called on Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores ahead of a looming deadline that could lead to a nationwide ban of the video-sharing platform. The lawmakers urged Cook and Pichai to prepare for the removal of TikTok from their respective platforms by the January 19 deadline. In their letter to Chew, they called for the "immediate execution" of a qualified divestiture of the app.