Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on China, said Friday that he has requested an “urgent” briefing from the administration over the deal President Trump approved to keep TikTok available in the U.S.

Moolenaar, who previously voiced concerns about whether a deal would leave the platform reliant on a Chinese-owned algorithm, said that he will be “conducting full oversight” over the agreement.

“ByteDance has shown time and again that it is a bad actor, and the Chinese Communist Party’s ultimate goal is to see America divided and weakened,” he said in a statement. “That is why, on an overwhelming bipartisan basis, Congress required ByteDance to divest control of TikTok.”

Lawmakers passed a law in 2024 requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance t

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