Senators urge Biden to grant ByteDance 90-day reprieve from law requiring sale

Senators urge Biden to grant ByteDance 90-day reprieve from law requiring sale

Democratic Senator Ed Markey and Republican Senator Rand Paul on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to extend by 90 days a Jan. 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. assets of its short-video app TikTok or face a ban.

Senators urge Biden to delay TikTok ban

Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) urged President Biden on Thursday to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to divest from its China-based parent company or face a ban.  The pair emphasized the current deadline is set for Jan. 19, the day before a new administration takes office, and the Supreme Court has scheduled…

Biden Urged to Grant ByteDance 90-Day Wait on Law Requiring TikTok Sale

Two Senators, a Republican and a Democrat, would like the president to push the deadline back, citing free speech concerns.

Bipartisan senators urge Biden to delay TikTok sell-or-ban deadline by 90 days

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, and Republican Kentucky Rand Paul urged the president to extend the app's divest deadline by 90 days, citing the quick turnaround that would be needed at the Supreme Court.

Tiktok U.S. ban: Senators urge Biden to grant ByteDance 90-day reprieve from law requiring sale

Senators have urged President Biden to give ByteDance a 90-day grace period before it sells TikTok in the U.S. or bans it.

US senators urge Biden to grant ByteDance 90-day reprieve from law requiring sale

TikTok is used by about 170 million Americans.