As the questions continue to swirl around Washington for the future of Tiktok, the name of a potential supervisor for the popular video application continues to come: Oracle.
On Tuesday, Oracle met with top assistants at Capitol Hill to talk about how the US technician, who processes and serves Tiktok user data, plans to work with the Chinese video application in the United States in the coming weeks, according to two people who did not know.
The questions came as Tiktok looks at a deadline of April 5th from a federal law prohibiting his distribution in the country if not sold to a non -Chinese owner. The owner of Tiktok is the Chinese company Internet ByTedance and its Chinese ties have asked questions about whether the application raises national security threats in the United States.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the assistants also raised the question of whether Oracle would participate in the execution of Tiktok, following a recent Politico report that the company was in talks with the White House for a deal, one of the people said. The assistants have asked for assurances from Oracle that any agreement would comply with the law.
The meeting, which was asked by the assistants, included staff members from the Communist Party Selection Committee for the Communist Party, the office of the speaker Mike Johnson and the House Energy and Trade Committee, reported two people with knowledge of the meeting.
Tiktok is still facing a political struggle for its future. In January, President Trump delayed the law that would ban Tiktok from the United States, which voted for Congress with bilateral support and unanimously confirmed by the Supreme Court. Mr Trump has promised to agree to protect national security and make use of Vice President JD Vance in February to find an arrangement to save it.
Oracle is a natural candidate to be part of an agreement for Tiktok. The company is already a technical partner of Tiktok in the United States and was offered for the implementation when Mr Trump, in his first term, tried to force a sale from ByTedance.
The White House, not Congress, will finally decide whether a deal for Tiktok can go ahead. It is not clear whether Oracle is currently interested in the application. Tiktok and Oracle refused to comment. The White House also did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
As the April 5th deadline approaches, Republican legislators and other China hawks who supported the law expressed concerns that Tiktok and ByTedance could try to reach an agreement with Trump’s administration that would maintain Chinese influence and implementation.
Legislators say that an agreement that does not meet the requirements of the law will undermine national security and could lead to shareholder lawsuits against technology companies that distribute and host Tiktok in the United States.
“The law is clear: Any agreement must eliminate Chinese influence and control of the application for safeguarding our interests,” spokesman John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican who leads the House Committee focused on China in a column on a column. He said he was “committed to ensure that any agreement with Tiktok meets the clear legal requirements set by Congress”.
Mr Vance told NBC News last week that by April 5 “there will be almost certainly a high -level deal that I think satisfies our concerns about national security, allowing a separate American Tiktok business”.
Mr Trump said this month that while he was optimistic that Tiktok would reach an agreement before the deadline, he was open to expanding the deadline.
Larry Ellison, co -founder and head of Oracle technology, joined Mr Trump for an announcement in January for an artificial intelligence initiative of $ 100 billion. At the event, Mr Trump said that Elon Musk or Oracle could buy Tiktok and stressed the “right to make an agreement”.
Mr Trump’s cessation of law enforcement has raised questions about whether the president keeps the rule of law or the extent of the limits of the executive. Some experts said the conflict represents the principles of a constitutional crisis.
Tiktok argued for at least a year that the sale of the company would be impossible, in part because the Chinese government would not allow the export of the very important Tiktok algorithm.
