The president called for securing the country's borders in his first comments on the shooting that injured at least eight people demonstrating in support of Israeli hostages.

Other GOP leaders took a similar position, with top adviser Stephen Miller calling it an example of “suicidal migration.”

If the tariffs had taken effect as planned, the per-unit cost of a home might have increased by as much as $29,000. In a sector characterized by thin margins, that would have meant a lot of idle construction sites.