WASHINGTON — The chairman of a House committee that pushed for the law demanding TikTok be spun off from its Chinese owners requested an urgent briefing from the White House, a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order supporting a proposed deal that would put the popular social video platform under U.S. ownership.

In a statement released Friday, Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, praised the proposed deal as "an important step" in transitioning ownership of the TikTok platform to American hands but emphasized "divestment was not the law's only requirement."

"The law also set firm guardrails that prohibit cooperation between ByteDance and any prospective TikTok successor on the all-important recommendation algorithm, as

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