A bipartisan housing bill that would have boosted home supply and lowered rents sat unsigned on President Donald Trump's desk Wednesday, hours before he stormed into a Senate Republican luncheon and called Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy a 'lunatic' over Iran.
The two moves, one on housing and the other on war, exposed the same fracture inside the Grand Old Party (GOP) that may decide whether bills touching American paycheques get signed before November's midterms. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters the president was 'mad as a murder hornet about the war powers vote' that four Republicans backed a day earlier.
