White House to purchase the social video app TikTok from its Chinese owners, according to a person familiar with the matter.The company sent its proposal in a letter to Vice President JD Vance, who’s heading efforts to help facilitate a sale of the US operations of the video platform ahead of a deadline later this week,

Amazon has made a last-minute bid to acquire TikTok as a nationwide ban on the platform looms. A Trump administration official confirmed the offer, which was sent in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that had been upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, which said the ban was necessary for national security.