President-elect Donald Trump indicates he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a US ban, leaving the fate of the popular video app hanging in the balance as the transition of power commences.
President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Saturday that he would likely grant TikTok a 90-day extension to finalize a deal that would prevent its ban in the United States. In an interview with NBC News, Trump stated that he hadn't made a final decision but was leaning towards granting the extension following his inauguration on Monday. A law prohibiting mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users comes into effect on Sunday.
Enacted by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden last year, the law stipulated that TikTok's China-based parent company had nine months to sell its U.S. operations to an approved buyer. The law allows the sitting president to extend this deadline if a sale is in progress. 'I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate,' Trump told 'Meet the Press' moderator Kristen Welker during a phone interview. 'We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation.' Both White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco made it clear on Friday that the Biden administration would leave the implementation of the law to Trump, as his inauguration falls the day after the ban takes effect. In a statement released later on Friday, TikTok requested 'a definitive statement' asserting that the Biden administration wouldn't enforce the law or attempt to penalize app store operators such as Apple, Google, and other U.S. companies if they continued to make TikTok available after Sunday. Without these assurances, TikTok stated that it 'will be forced to go dark.' However, the company remained vague on specifics, omitting details such as whether it would choose to voluntarily shut down its U.S. platform at midnight or suspend operations after losing access to essential service providers. 'We see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office on Monday,' Jean-Pierre stated. 'We have laid out our position clearly and straightforwardly: actions to implement this law will fall to the next administration. So TikTok and other companies should take up any concerns with them.' Neither Apple, Google, nor Oracle, which stores TikTok's data on its servers, have responded to inquiries regarding their plans for Sunday
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