Trump administration expected to receive $10B fee linked to TikTok US deal

The Trump administration could receive up to $10 billion related to the TikTok deal in the United States, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Sources cited by the publication say investors in TikTok’s US business, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi–based investor MGX, agreed to pay the US government billions of dollars as part of the arrangement that allowed the popular app to remain available in the country.

According to the report, investors have already paid $2.5 billion to the US Treasury after the deal closed in January. Additional payments are expected in several installments until the total reaches $10 billion.

In January 2026, Chinese company ByteDance agreed to sell TikTok’s US operations to American investors. Announcing the deal, US President Donald Trump said the country would receive a significant payment for facilitating the agreement.

“The United States is getting a tremendous fee-plus — I call it a fee-plus — just for making the deal and I don’t want to throw that out the window,” Trump said.