US extends TikTok sale deadline by another 90 days

Trump signs enforcement bid extending the deadline for TikTok’s merchantability oregon divestment from Chinese genitor institution ByteDance to September 17.

United States President Donald Trump has signed an enforcement bid extending the deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest its US assets of the short-form video app TikTok by different 90 days, helium says, contempt a instrumentality that mandated a merchantability oregon shutdown.

“I’ve conscionable signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days (September 17, 2025),” the president said successful a station connected Thursday connected his societal media platform, Truth Social.

The prohibition would person different kicked successful connected Thursday.

“We are grateful for President Trump’s enactment and enactment successful ensuring that TikTok continues to beryllium disposable for much than 170 cardinal American users and 7.5 cardinal US businesses that trust connected the level arsenic we proceed to enactment with Vice President [JD] Vance’s Office,” TikTok said successful a statement.

Vance’s bureau has been progressive successful negotiations with the platform.

Passed successful April 2024 and known arsenic the the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, the instrumentality required TikTok to halt operating successful the US by January 19 unless ByteDance had completed divesting itself of the app’s US assets oregon demonstrated important advancement towards a sale.

The instrumentality was challenged successful the Supreme Court successful January, but the nation’s highest court upheld the ban.

Third extension

This is the 3rd clip the president has extended the deadline. Trump began his 2nd word arsenic president connected January 20 and opted not to enforce the law. He archetypal extended the deadline to aboriginal April and past again past period to June 19.

Democratic senators argued that Trump has nary ineligible authorization to widen the deadline and suggested a woody nether information would not conscionable ineligible requirements.

The White House connected Tuesday said the app volition beryllium “mandated a merchantability oregon shutdown absent important progress”.

“President Trump does not privation TikTok to spell dark,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters connected Tuesday.

She added that the medication volition walk the adjacent 3 months making definite the merchantability closes truthful Americans tin support utilizing TikTok with the assurance that their information is harmless and secure.

In March, Trump said helium would beryllium consenting to trim tariffs connected China to get a woody done with ByteDance to merchantability the app.

A woody had been successful the works this outpouring that would rotation disconnected TikTok’s US operations into a caller US-based steadfast majority-owned and operated by US investors. That was enactment connected clasp aft China said it would not o.k. that woody due to the fact that of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

TikTok has a wide US idiosyncratic base, particularly among younger audiences. According to a survey from Pew Research conducted successful December, a 3rd of each US adults usage TikTok, and among the nether 30 demographic, it is higher astatine 59 percent portion 67 percent of teens usage the platform.