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Congress hereby authorizes the President, beginning at 12:01 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 20, 2025, to seek to enter into negotiations with the Kingdom of Denmark to secure the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,
Not later than 5 calendar days after reaching an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark relating to the acquisition of Greenland by the United States, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees the agreement, including all related materials and annexes,
Joe Biden took a blowtorch to our reputation these past four years, and before even taking office, President Trump is telling the world that America First is back. American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, and House Republicans are ready to help President Trump deliver for the American people,
Ogles told Fox News Digital No, I can't assure you on either of those two."
He told a reporter who asked if he would rule out using economic or military coercion In the last few years, China has repeatedly tried to gain a strategic foothold in Greenland, by offering to buy a former U.S. military base there and through a financing scheme for airport construction. Purchasing it would keep it out of the hands of both the Chinese and the Russians. It is rich in national resources with untold economic potential and already extremely important to U.S. national security."
Tom Cotton told CNN in August 2019 Reminder: The 'plan' to buy Greenland was cooked up by Putin's GRU during the first Trump administration to divide NATO and normalize taking land without its citizens' consent. They faked a letter to... Sen. Tom Cotton to get the thing going."
Writer Dean Gloster said on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom."
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede told Reuters in December That was a very important piece for me. Obviously, she voted against 702 authority. ... But when she came out and said, ‘Hey, this is something I’m going to stand for,’ that’s part of the role of the Office of National Intelligence, is to make sure we’re actually watching for people to come attack us and stopping them before they do,
You have Russia that is trying to become king of the Arctic with 60-plus icebreakers, some of them nuclear-powered,
Frankly, the current leadership, the Danish government, has not done a good enough job of securing Greenland,
I think there actually is a real opportunity here for us to take leadership, to protect America’s security, to ensure that those incredible natural resources are developed,
Quite frankly, the president’s been very clear,
For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
In a statement announcing his pick to be ambassador to Denmark last month, Trump wrote We need them for economic security,
The Regulation provides a legal framework for responding to coercion and sets down the means for the EU to investigate and take decisions,
the Commission wrote in a press release in 2023
