Despite being an overall strong supporter of Donald Trump, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., may block the president’s plan to save TikTok, according to a report.

That’s because a potential deal to save the video-sharing app would involve some sort of “licensing agreement” between Oracle and ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

Oracle and TikTok executives have argued that since the app’s algorithm would be located inside Oracle’s cloud, the U.S. tech giant would control the algorithm and not the Chinese communists.

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