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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Io Dodds

What is Trump's planned sovereign wealth fund and how could it buy TikTok?

Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that did not for once focus on freezing government budgets or implementing the tenets of Project 2025.

The order directed the Treasury and the Commerce Department to develop a plan for establishing a sovereign wealth fund, which Trump hopes will one day rival that of Saudi Arabia.

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