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President Joe Biden’s administration said it will be up to President-elect Donald Trump to implement the ban on TikTok, which is set to take effect in two days after the Supreme Court upheld the law Friday.
“Given the sheer fact of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next Administration, which takes office on Monday,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
The law required the China-based company ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok, in order for the popular app to continue operating in the United States. Without such action, it would be banned beginning on Sunday. The measure passed in Congress with bipartisan support, with lawmakers citing national security concerns over the Chinese ownership.
NBC News previously reported that the Biden administration was weighing against enforcing the law and had no plans to levy billions of dollars in fines against tech companies that continued to allow access to TikTok.
The ban will take effect just one day before Trump is set to be inaugurated as president. Trump has said he is against the ban, even though he once supported it.
The Trump transition team did not immediately return a request for comment.
Amanda Terkel is politics managing editor for NBC News Digital.
Aaron Gilchrist is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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