Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity,

Amazon has placed a bid on TikTok, as the April 5 deadline nears for a potential sale of the social media company. If a deal does not emerge, the popular app could face a nationwide ban.

Amazon has expressed interest in buying TikTok ahead of deadline for ByteDance to sell the social media app or face a U.S. ban.