U.S. President Donald Trump will issue another extension to decide the fate of TikTok, pushing it by 90 days, the White House said on Tuesday. The current extension, which was signed in April, was set to expire on Thursday, June 19.
“President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to CBS News.
“As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure,” she added.
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law to ban TikTok, resulting in app stores and service providers pulling support for the app in the U.S. Just a few days after taking office, Trump signed an executive order to delay the ban to explore a deal with Bytedance to divest its U.S. business. On April 4, he issued another extension of 75 days to keep the short video app up and running.