For Third timePresident Donald Trump will expand the deadline for Tikok to get out of his Chinese -origin company or to face the US ban. The White House press secretary Karolin Lewit confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that Trump would sign an executive order this week, which would extend another 90 -day deadline at this time, which reduces the new deadline in mid -September.
The Trump administration will spend in the next 90 days “working to ensure that the deal stops so that the American people continue to use the tiktok with the assurance that their data is safe and safe,” Levit said.
The expansion, the first signed on 20 January, is subjected to the theoretically subjected to Tiktok’s US service providers who are subjected Protect Americans from anti -foreign controlled application act From Hundreds of billions in punishment They can face the app to keep the app online and in the US app store. But this legal cover was already unstable that Trump’s extension has not been codified in the law, which was heavily passed in the Congress by a bilateral vote, and retained as a constitutional by the Supreme Court.
As Ruckus Previously reported, bidence and an Oracle -led alliance Was almost a deal In April, but Trump’s tariff suddenly blew up the temporary agreement. While the trade tension between the US and China has decreased, there is no recent news about reviving that deal or someone else. Even when a sale is likely, it was not clear that China has allowed to sell the valuable algorithm that strengthens the video recommendations of Tiktok.
“The whole thing is a sham if the algorithm does not go out of the hands of Beijing”
Many MPs, people who have criticized a partition-or-appointment law for tiktok and bidence, warned that Trump’s frequent extensions are unstable and illegal. After Trump’s final expansion in April, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice President Mark Warner (D-VA) told Ruckus The step was “against the law” and said “the whole thing is a sham if the algorithm does not go out of the hands of Beijing.”
Before the second extension, the sensor. Ed Mark (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Corey Booker (D-NJ), which oppose Tikkok’s ban, Trump wrote This will be “unacceptable and unacceptable for your administration to continue ignoring the requirements in the law.” He warned, “Oracle, Apple, Google and other companies will need to expand any more expansion of the Ticketkok deadline, so that the destructive legal liability can be put at risk, a difficult decision to justify a difficult decision.”
This is because Tiktok service providers in the US can be fined for facility to facilitate access to the app after the time limit of the ban, and falls out of the mechanisms allowed in Trump’s extension law. So far, however, these companies seem to rely on the assurance from the administration that they will not be sued to keep the ticket online, although this is Allegedly took a letter from American Attorney General To accept the concerns of Apple and Google.
A court can evaluate whether Trump’s actions are legal, but only if anyone prosecutes to prevent expansion – and so far, no one has. Earlier this month, however, A Google shareholder filed a case Against the company to fail to share internal records about its decision to provoke the law under the assurance of the Department of Justice. The same shareholder had already filed a case against DOJ, which failed to share information about his decision not to implement the law against Apple and Google.
While members of Trump’s party have not generally gone so far to call their extensions illegal, A Dozen House Republican A statement in April said that “any proposal should ensure that the US law is followed, and that the Chinese Communist Party does not have the ability to manipulate American user data or material consumed by Americans.” Sen Josh Hale (R-MO) told reporters that month that Trump should “need to implement the law and restrict Tiktok. Meanwhile, the way, the way, I don’t think it is viable.”
But it is not clear what will prevent Trump from approving indefinite extensions or a deal that does not complete the letter of law. As Haley, while talking to reporters in April, admitted, “Congress, we don’t have their own enforcement branch.”
