Resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland by Sen. Gallego
Senator Ruben Gallego He said Tuesday that he has submitted a resolution that would block President Donald Trump from invading Greenland.
“WAKE UP,” wrote Gallego, D-Ariz. X on social media siteThe Trump administration has stepped up its rhetoric calling for the United States to seize Greenland, Denmark’s self-governing territory.
“Trump is telling us exactly what he wants to do. We must stop him before he invades another country on a whim,” Gallego wrote. “I’m proposing a resolution that would prevent Trump from invading Greenland. No more wars forever.”
Trump in a weekend interview atlantic magazineHe said he would leave it to others to determine whether the latest U.S. offensive to capture Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro had an impact on Greenland. But he also said: “We definitely need Greenland. We need it for defense.”
“From a national security standpoint, we need Greenland, and I would say Denmark can’t do that,” Trump said separately on Air Force One on Sunday. he said.
Gallego introduced an amendment to the Senate Defense Appropriations bill on Monday that would prohibit the funds from being used for military force against Greenland.
Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) exits the Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on October 1, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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“President Trump believes Greenland is a strategically important location critical to national security and is confident that Greenlanders will be better served if protected by the United States from modern threats in the Arctic region,” a White House spokesman said in a statement Tuesday. he said.
“The President is committed to establishing long-term peace at home and abroad,” the spokesman said.
Also on Tuesday, the governments of Denmark and Greenland requested a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “discuss the important statement made by the US about Greenland”, according to a statement by Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt.
Motzfeldt said that “the governments of Greenland and Denmark requested a ministerial meeting during 2025” but this failed.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was asked by reporters on Capitol Hill early Tuesday whether he was concerned about the attack on Venezuela spreading to Cuba and Greenland.
“I hope it spreads to Cuba. The situation is different in Greenland,” Graham said. “Everyone wants us to have a larger presence in Greenland to combat Russian/Chinese Arctic influence. I’m totally on board with that. I think Trump is asking: what is the legal relationship we’re going to have?”
“If I am a European member of NATO, I would reevaluate my participation in that effort if NATO countries were invaded by Donald Trump,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told reporters on the Hill Tuesday.
Murphy answered “Of course yes” when asked whether NATO countries would have to defend Greenland against the United States.
“Article 5 says this. Article 5 did not foresee that the occupying country would be a member of NATO,” said Murphy. “We’re laughing, but it’s actually no laughing matter right now because I think he’s getting more and more serious.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Sunday called on the United States to “stop threats against a historically close ally and another country and other people who have publicly said they are not for sale.”
“The Kingdom of Denmark, and therefore Greenland, is part of NATO and is therefore covered by the security guarantee of the alliance,” he said.
“We already have a defense agreement between the Kingdom and the United States today that provides the United States with broad access to Greenland,” Frederiksen said.
