Gregory Korte

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — President Trump postponed the signing of an executive order on cybersecurity Tuesday, despite a White House messaging blitz on the issue and a signing ceremony on the schedule.

Trump even talked up action on cybersecurity during a "listening session" with experts in the Roosevelt Room, saying he was fulfilling a campaign promise to secure the nation's computer networks from malicious hacking.

"I will hold my Cabinet secretaries and agency heads accountable, totally accountable for the cybersecurity of their organizations," he said.

The canceled signing ceremony is an indication that after an unprecedented blitz of executive action in his first 10 days, Trump has begun to hit road blocks in his attempts to govern by executive order.

In addition to the cyber order, the White House has postponed an announced order to the Justice Department to investigate Trump's unfounded allegations of voter fraud in the 2016. And on Tuesday, the White House announced that Trump would not reverse President Obama's executive order on workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians working for federal contractors.

The White House did not immediately explain why the signing was canceled, but press secretary Sean Spicer had signaled that it may not be ready.

"I just want to caution what we may or may not do today," he told reporters earlier in the day. "I think the president's got a pretty good idea where he's gonna go, but I think he wants to hear what [former New York] Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani and some of these other experts have to say about the steps that we can take in terms of executive action that will help secure further these critical infrastructures."

Trump seemed to have some thoughts on cybersecurity, even highlighting the role that it played in the 2016 presidential election.

"I think a pretty good example of this is, despite having spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars more than we did, the Democratic National Committee was hacked, successfully," he said. U.S. intelligence agencies have fingered Russian hackers for that breach, which they said was directed by top Russian government officials in an attempt to get Trump elected.

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