Why No One Is Challenging Trump's Executive Order That Keeps Tiktok Running

After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve , barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court that said the ban was necessary for national security.

The Republican president's executive orders have spurred more than 130 lawsuits in the little more than two months he has been in office, but this one barely generated a peep. None of those suits challenges his temporary block of the 2024 law that banned the popular social video app after the deadline passed for it to be sold by ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

Few of the 431 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate who voted for the law have complained.

Despite a bipartisan consensus about the risk to national security posed by TikTok's ties to China, "it's as if nothing ever happened," said Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell University's Tech Policy Institute.

TikTok has stayed online, delighting 170 million users in the U.S.