As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, President Joe Biden’s lame duck administration is racing to Trump-proof its green jobs program.

Some U.S. lawmakers are advocating for an extension on the deadline for TikTok's Beijing parent company to sell U.S. assets before a ban takes effect.

(WJAR) — U.S. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts is calling for the extension of the TikTok ban. He held a press conference on Thursday at 2:15 p.m. to urge the Biden Administration to extend the deadline. At the event, Markey said he will be sending a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to use his power to extend the deadline for 90 days.

President Joe Biden appears to be backpedaling on the TikTok ban he signed last year. His administration is now saying it won’t enforce the law that will boot the popular platform from app stores, which is scheduled to begin on Sunday, the day before he leaves office.

TikTok denied a report that China is mulling over an offer from Elon Musk to buy the app ahead of a Jan. 19 deadline in the U.S., BBC News reports.

TikTok could still proactively choose to shut itself down that day -- a move intended to send a clear message to the 170 million people it says use the app each month about the wide-ranging impact of the ban.

Some lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden and the U.S. Supreme Court ... to sell the U.S. assets of TikTok by Jan. 19, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, announced he planned to introduce legislation ...

A year ago, a survey of presidential scholars put him in the top third of chief executives while Trump ranked last. But that was before the 2024 election and campaign.

President-elect Trump considers reprieve for video-sharing app as law prohibiting its distribution takes effect Sunday.

U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled prohibiting TikTok, the Chinese-owned app, is necessary to address security risks. TikTok looks to President-elect Trump for last-minute reprieve.

NBC News reports that TikTok has boosted advertisements for Lemon8, an application also owned by ByteDance, in recent days. Rival social-media apps and websites such as Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat are expected to increase their user base in the wake of a possible ban.