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 that is a definitional clause to explain what the forced divestiture applies to. The bill mentions ByteDance and TikTok specifically, “covered company” is the legal nomenclature per the US code. Any attempt to go beyond TikTok would be a direct constitutional challenge 
 Well the way its written it can apply to covered companies not related to Bytedance. Constitution gets broken all the time. Cases sometimes go to court for these breakages but by the time it's decided upon the damage is done.