By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democratic senator on Monday asked U.S. President Donald Trump to answer key details about a plan by TikTok’s Chinese owners to sell a majority stake in the short video app’s U.S. assets.

Trump signed an executive order on September 25 declaring that a plan to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to a consortium of U.S. and global investors meets the national security requirements set out in a 2024 law and gave them 120 days to complete the transaction. In doing so, he delayed until January 20 enforcement of the law banning the app used by 170 million Americans unless China’s ByteDance sells it.

Senator Ed Markey said the White House has not answered numerous questions and has not followed the 2024 law.

“Your repeated unlawful extensions of the dive

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