Executive Order 14166

Application of Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok

Signed 2025-01-20 in effect
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Grants TikTok a 75-day reprieve from the statutory ban that took effect January 19, 2025, under the bipartisan Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Directs the AG not to enforce the ban during the reprieve period to allow time for a negotiated sale or restructuring. Extended repeatedly by subsequent orders.

Section by Section

What each section does, and how they differ.

Sec. 1 Policy

Establishes policy under Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act regulating foreign adversary controlled applications on national security grounds.

Sec. 2 Enforcement Pause

Attorney General ordered not to enforce the Act for 75 days to allow administration review; DOJ shall not impose penalties for conduct during pause or prior to this order.

Sec. 3 General Provisions

Standard boilerplate: preserves existing agency authority, conditions the order on appropriations, and creates no enforceable private rights.