Vance's TikTok fixer to depart Trump administration for the private sector
Source: NBC News
Feb. 5, 2026, 10:30 AM EST
The top lawyer in Vice President JD Vance’s office is departing for the private sector after a year when he was a key player in the White House deal to save TikTok and other initiatives. Sean Cooksey will leave his post as counsel to the vice president to join BGR Group, a lobbying and public affairs firm, a person familiar with the move told NBC News.
Cooksey, a longtime GOP lawyer and former Federal Election Commission chair, was an original hire for Vance’s office and had planned to stay in the job for only about a year. He also has held senior roles with Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
“Sean Cooksey has been a force to be reckoned with in our office and I’m grateful for the tireless work ethic he brought to the job every day,” Vance said in a statement. “We put a number of seriously challenging problems on Sean’s desk, but he was undaunted by anything we asked him to do. We wish him nothing but the best.”
Cooksey was Vance’s behind-the-scenes point person after President Donald Trump put Vance in charge of finding an agreement to keep TikTok online in the U.S. Cooksey’s efforts helped land a deal that placed the popular short-form video platform under the control of a joint venture backed by American investors and aimed at ending years of scrutiny over TikTok’s Chinese ownership.
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Mission accomplished.
All they did was pull an Elon and allowed one of Trump's billionaire criminal oligarch buddies to buy it and start eliminating any chance the platform had of dissenting this madness. 