TikTok’s fate has been up in the air since a law requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance to either sell it on national security grounds or face a ban took effect on January 19. U.S. President Donald Trump, after taking office on January 20, signed an executive order seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of the law.

Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he was hopeful a deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. will be wrapped up by the early April deadline. “There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns,

Vice President J.D. Vance expressed confidence Friday that a deal to transfer TikTok's U.S. operations to American ownership would be largely in place by the April 5 deadline set by the Trump administration.

There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise,” he told NBC News during an interview aboard Air Force Two.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance expects the general terms of an agreement to resolve the ownership of social media platform TikTok in time for an April 5 deadline, according to two White House officials.

Vice President JD Vance is confident that a “high-level” purchase of TikTok will happen before a law banning the social media app in the US takes effect April 5. “There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns,

Vice President JD Vance hopes a ‘high-level’ deal will be reached by the April 5th deadline to keep TikTok up and running in the United States.