
President Trump abruptly upended plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill by canceling the ceremony and framing his policy preference in emergency terms, leaving Republican allies scrambling. House Speaker Mike Johnson made a rushed visit to the White House to try to untangle the fallout from the cancellation. The move highlights a recurring tactic of treating policy priorities as emergencies and has compounded recent intra-GOP tensions and legislative uncertainty on Capitol Hill.
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