March 17 : The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday asked the White House to answer if investors are paying $10 billion to the Treasury as part of the Trump administration-brokered sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations. Senator Mark Warner cited a Wall Street Journal report that investors in the new TikTok joint venture – including Oracle, Silver Lake, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and other investors – have already paid $2.5 billion to the Treasury and will pay the remaining $7.5 billion