Executive Order No. 14258. Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay

• Published date: 09 April 2025
• FR Document: 2025-06162
• Pages: 15209-15210
• Citation: 90 FR 15209
• Executive Order No.: 14258
• Date: 04 April 2025
• Issuer: Executive Office of the President
• Section: Presidential Documents

Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 67 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025)

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 67 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025)]
                [Presidential Documents]
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                 Executive Order 14258 of April 4, 2025
                
                Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
                 By the authority vested in me as President by the
                 Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                 America, it is hereby ordered:
                 Section 1. Extension. (a) The enforcement delay
                 specified in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14166 of
                 January 20, 2025 (Application of Protecting Americans
                 from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to
                 TikTok), is further extended until June 19, 2025.
                 During this period, the Department of Justice shall
                 take no action to enforce the Protecting Americans from
                 Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the
                 ``Act'') (Public Law 118-50, Div. H) or impose any
                 penalties against any entity for any noncompliance with
                 the Act, including for distributing, maintaining, or
                 updating (or enabling the distribution, maintenance, or
                 updating) of any foreign adversary controlled
                 application as defined in the Act. In light of this
                 direction, even after the expiration of the above-
                 specified period, the Department of Justice shall not
                 take any action to enforce the Act or impose any
                 penalties against any entity for any conduct that
                 occurred during the above-specified period or any
                 period prior to the issuance of this order, including
                 the period of time from January 19, 2025, to the date
                 of this order.
                 (b) The Attorney General shall take all appropriate
                 action to issue written guidance to implement the
                 provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
                 (c) The Attorney General shall further issue a
                 letter to each provider stating that there has been no
                 violation of the statute and that there is no liability
                 for any conduct that occurred during the above-
                 specified period, as well as for any conduct from the
                 effective date of the Act until the date of this order.
                 (d) Because of the national security interests at
                 stake and because section 2(d) of the Act vests
                 authority for investigations and enforcement of the Act
                 only in the Attorney General, attempted enforcement by
                 the States or private parties represents an
                 encroachment on the powers of the Executive. The
                 Attorney General shall exercise all available authority
                 to preserve and defend the Executive's exclusive
                 authority to enforce the Act.
                 Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
                 shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
                (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
                the head thereof; or
                (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
                relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
                 (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
                 applicable law and subject to the availability of
                 appropriations.
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                 (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
                 create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
                 enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
                 the United States, its departments, agencies, or
                 entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
                 other person.
                
                
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                 April 4, 2025.
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