The Environmental Protection Agency also plans rule repealing federal finding that greenhouse gases from power ‌plants ⁠specifically pose a threat

Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, said in interviews on Sunday that Donald Trump’s pledge to pay all US adult citizens $5,000 if the GOP win the midterm elections will require congressional approval. This, despite the president’s belief that he wouldn’t need both chambers to pass legislation to issue they payouts.

“I would assume, yes, he’d need Congress to act,” Johnson said in an interview with CNN on Sunday, while calling the incentive “a creative idea”. A reminder that the bill for doling out the $5,000 checks would amount to well over $1tn.

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