Chinese officials reportedly discuss sale of TikTok in US to Elon Musk

Chinese officials have reportedly held preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok's operations in the US to the billionaire Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/china-tiktok-sale-elon-musk

 

Trump says border wall material shouldn’t be sold despite congressional requirement - The Washington Post

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that President Joe Biden should stop selling unused border wall material, calling it "almost a criminal act" — even though Congress required its disposal in bipartisan legislation last year… 

Because it is now mostly rusted useless junk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/16/trump-border-wall-material/

Mnuchin tried to force a sale of TikTok. Now he’s a possible bidder. - The Washington Post

The former treasury secretary's interest in purchasing the popular app from China-based ByteDance is raising ethical alarms as Congress considers a forced sale…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/27/mnuchin-tiktok-ban-sale-congress/

Senator John Fetterman vows to block ‘outrageous’ $14.9bn US Steel sale

"Neither US Steel nor Nippon reached out to our union regarding the deal, which is in itself a violation of our partnership agreement that requires US Steel to notify us of a change in control or business conditions," McCall told Axios, calling the sale "shortsighted". 

A previous buyout offer in August, worth $7.3bn, by rival company Cleveland Cliffs, was rejected by US Steel. That offer did have the support of the USW union, which praised the Ohio-based Cleveland Cliffs as being "in the best position to ensure that US-based manufacturing remains strong in this country", and noted it didn't cut jobs during previous acquisitions in 2019 and 2020…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/19/john-fetterman-vote-block-us-steel-sale

Michigan governor blocks sale of former prison to private immigrant detention company - Daily Kos

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has canceled the sale of a former state prison site to a for-profit private prison company that sought to reopen the property in order to detain hundreds of immigrants. The Democratic leader said she made the decision after Immigration Centers of America (ICA) wouldn't guarantee that the prison "would not be used to detain adults who had been separated from their children or other family members." ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1836336