An executive order aimed at boosting US cyber security was not signed on schedule as president Donald Trump turned his attention to legal challenges related to his controversial orders on immigration.
The White House offered no reason for the delay, but a Trump aide told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity that Trump’s schedule had been complicated by discussions of a lawsuit by San Francisco .
City officials are challenging president Trump’s order to withhold funds from cities that protect undocumented immigrants by failing to prosecute them for violating immigration laws.
The eagerly awaited executive order is expected to make the heads of federal agencies accountable for internal IT modernisation and cyber security of their agencies.
