Washington — President Trump has erstwhile again delayed the enforcement of a bipartisan instrumentality that would efficaciously prohibition TikTok successful the U.S. A woody to abstracted TikTok from its China-based genitor company, ByteDance, has remained elusive.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the president would motion the latest enforcement bid this week delaying enforcement of the instrumentality for 90 days, marking the 3rd hold successful the law's implementation since his inauguration successful January.
"As helium has said galore times, President Trump does not privation TikTok to spell dark. This hold volition past 90 days, which the Administration volition walk moving to guarantee this woody is closed truthful that the American radical tin proceed to usage TikTok with the assurance that their information is harmless and secure," Leavitt said successful a statement.
The orders person directed the Justice Department to not instrumentality enactment oregon enforce penalties against companies similar Apple and Google for nonaccomplishment to region the wide fashionable video-sharing app from their platforms.
The existent hold expires Thursday.
This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.
Kristin Brown, Cristina Corujo, Patrick Maguire and Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.
Caitlin Yilek is simply a authorities newsman astatine CBSNews.com, based successful Washington, D.C. She antecedently worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a subordinate of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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