Oracle's role in the future of Tiktok obtains Capitol Hill's scrutiny

As the questions continue to turn through Washington about the future of Tiktok, the name of a potential suitor for the popular video application continues to appear: Oracle.

On Tuesday, Oracle met with the main assistants in Capitol Hill to talk about how the American technological giant, which processes and serves data from Tiktok users, plans to work with the application of Chinese property video in the United States in the coming weeks, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The questions occurred when Tiktok looks at a deadline of April 5 of a federal law that prohibits its distribution in the country if it is not sold to a non -Chinese owner. The owner of Tiktok is the Chinese Internet company Bytedance, and its Chinese ties have raised doubts about whether the application represents a national security threat in the United States.

At Tuesday's meeting, the assistants also raised the issue of whether Oracle would be involved in the execution of Tiktok, after a recent politician report that the company was in conversations with the White House for an agreement, said one of the people. The assistants sought guarantees of Oracle that any agreement would comply with the law.

The meeting, which was requested by the attendees, included members of the Select Committee of the Chamber of the Chinese Communist Party, the Office of President Mike Johnson and the Energy and Commerce Committee of the Chamber, two people with knowledge of the meeting said.

Tiktok faces another political struggle about his future. In January, President Trump delayed the application of the law that would prohibit Tiktok from the United States, which approved the Congress with bipartisan support and the Supreme Court unanimously confirmed. Trump has promised to make an agreement for the application to protect national security, and took advantage of vice president JD Vance in February to find an agreement to save it.

Oracle is a natural contender to be part of an agreement for Tiktok. The company is already a technological partner of Tiktok in the United States, and offered for the application when Trump, in his first term, tried to force a sale of Bytedance.

The White House, not Congress, will finally decide if an agreement for Tiktok can proceed. It is not clear if Oracle is currently interested in the application. Tiktok and Oracle declined to comment. The White House also did not respond immediately to a request for comments.

As the deadline of April 5 is approaching, Republican legislators and other Falcones of China who supported the law have expressed concern that Tiktok and the Bytedance could try to reach an agreement with the Trump administration that would maintain Chinese influence on the application and its powerful algorithm.

Legislators say that an agreement that does not meet the requirements of the law will undermine national security and could lead to shareholders' demands against technology companies that distribute and house Tiktok in the United States.

“The law is clear: any agreement must eliminate Chinese influence and control over the application to safeguard our interests,” said representative John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican who directs the committee of the House of Representatives in China, wrote in an opinion column on Tuesday in Tuesday The national review. He said he was “committed to ensuring that any agreement with Tiktok meets the clear legal requirements established by Congress.”

Mr. Vance told NBC News last week that for April 5 “there will surely be a high -level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows a Tiktok American company.”

Trump said this month that, although he was optimistic that Tiktok would reach an agreement before the deadline, he was open to extend the deadline.

Larry Ellison, co -founder and technology director of Oracle, joined Mr. Trump for an ad in January about an artificial intelligence initiative of $ 100 billion. In the event, Mr. Trump mentioned that Elon Musk or Oracle could buy Tiktok and emphasize his “right to make a deal.”

Mr. Trump's pause to enforce the law has asked questions about whether the president is respecting the rule of law or stretching the limits of the Executive Power. Some experts have said that the conflict represents the beginnings of a constitutional crisis.

Tiktok has argued for at least a year that a sale of the company would be impossible, partly because the Chinese government would not allow the export of Tiktok's so important algorithm.