Washington — For a fourth time, President Trump has pushed back enforcing a bipartisan law that would effectively ban TikTok over the video-sharing app's failure to cut ties with ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

The president signed an executive order Tuesday extending the pause on enforcing the law until at least Dec. 16.

The move comes on the heels of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's announcement Monday that U.S. and Chinese negotiators had agreed to " a framework " to resolve a dispute over TikTok's ownership. Mr. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are planning to speak Friday "to firm everything up," as Mr. Trump put it Tuesday morning.

The law, which was upheld by the Supreme Court , took effect a day before Mr. Trump's inauguration in January. Mr. T

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