Calls for Congress to take back the reins of trade policy are growing after President Donald Trump installed a 10% tariff on countries backing Greenland, as experts and some rebel lawmakers warn that the president’s growing obsession with obtaining the country needs to be stopped by leaders in Washington.
Trump has been floating the idea of the United States annexing Greenland since his first term, a notion that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called “absurd” in 2019. However, since reentering the Oval Office last year, Trump has amped up his rhetoric, insisting that acquiring Greenland is of “strategic importance” and necessary for the U.S.’s national security and even suggesting that the U.S. should take it by force.
The statements made by the Trump administration, along with
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