The Trump team has repeatedly delayed issuing the new order after its original version was stayed by courts amid a slew of legal challenges. | Getty Trump delays signing new travel ban order, officials say

President Donald Trump won’t sign a revised travel ban on Wednesday as had been anticipated, two senior administration officials confirmed.

One of the officials indicated that the delay was due to the busy news cycle, and that when Trump does sign the revised order, he wanted it to get plenty of attention.


“We need [the executive order] to have its own time to breathe,” the official said.

The Trump team has repeatedly delayed issuing the new order after its original version was stayed by courts amid a slew of legal challenges.

After courts blocked his initial order, Trump argued its suspension would endanger national security. “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!” Trump tweeted on Feb. 5.

Administration officials did not say when Trump would sign the revised order. The new version is expected to drop Iraq from the original list of seven predominantly Muslim countries whose citizens will be temporarily barred from getting visas to the United States.

It also is expected to include a temporarily halt on all refugee admissions to the United States, but to not single out Syrians as the prior version did.