Co-Director Ryan Calo weighed in on a recent episode of NPR’s “All Things Considered” about Trump granting a new reprieve to TikTok.

President Trump signed an executive order on June 19 granting TikTok a 90-day reprieve from enforcement of The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which Congress passed with bipartisan support last year and former president Biden signed into law. It was slated to take effect in January.

“This president is not operating within Congress’s intent,” he said. “It sets a bad precedent, wherein the president feels like he can simply ignore a congressional statute.”

Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app stores in February.

Calo says these companies are at risk because “every company that helps bring TikTok to Americans is technically violating an act of Congress right now and has been for months.”

“They’re taking a risk by continuing to support TikTok on the strength of this president’s commitment that he’s not going to prosecute, because it doesn’t say that, you know, people that are helping TikTok are off the hook,” Calo said. Although Trump’s January executive order says the Justice Department “shall take no action” to enforce the ban or administer penalties, he says, “There are zero guarantees.”

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