New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - For the millions of Americans waiting for federal housing policy to deliver on a two-year-old promise, Thursday was another day without an answer.

when Trump will sign the housing bill sitting on his desk, and how Congress will ever pass a voting overhaul the Senate almost certainly cannot deliver.

"Congress has work to do," Johnson said after leaving the White House, "and that's what we're going to do." He offered no timeline for either.

The standoff traces to Wednesday, when Trump abruptly canceled a Capitol Hill ceremony to sign the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a sweeping bipartisan package that would restrict large institutional investors from buying single-family homes and ease construction ...