Rep. Neal Dunn, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Thursday he is surprised by the amount of bipartisan support there is behind the effort by federal lawmakers to ban the TikTok social media app.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and was grilled by Democrat and Republican lawmakers on whether the app's parent company, ByteDance, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, has been spying on the app's 150 million American users.

Dunn, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, told "Prime News" he expects substantial action by Congress will be taken against the app in the near future. 

"I was actually surprised at how unanimous the opinion was among the committee on both sides of the aisle to ban TikTok," Dunn said.