{"id":700325,"date":"2026-01-16T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700325\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:19:10","slug":"us-senator-threatens-to-use-congressional-tools-to-block-trumps-greenland-grab-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700325\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator threatens to use congressional \u2018tools\u2019 to block Trump\u2019s Greenland grab \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, who also took part in the visit by House and Senate lawmakers, said he would push ahead with legislation to curb Trump\u2019s power to act unilaterally. <\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan group of American lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/12\/congress\/house-lawmakers-introduce-bipartisan-nato-bill-00723206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced a bill this week<\/a> to prevent Washington from invading a fellow NATO member. (Greenland, as a Danish territory, is part of the Atlantic alliance.) Congress can force votes on constraining presidential war powers, but recent efforts to rein in Trump have not succeeded. Even if it did pass, the White House has asserted any such measure would be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Coons also undercut Trump\u2019s arguments about Greenland from a national security perspective. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre there real, pressing threats to the security of Greenland from China and Russia?\u201d Coons said. \u201cNo, not today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has invoked the specter of Russian and Chinese warships in the Arctic as an argument for seizing control of Greenland. Conns said such claims were \u201crhetoric\u201d rather than \u201creality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s threats have sparked a full-blown diplomatic transatlantic crisis. Danish Foreign Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this week at the White House to discuss the matter as European nations rushed to deploy troops to the Arctic territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, who also took part in the visit by House and Senate lawmakers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1395,6659,365,32,366,601,660,40309,2820,811,1771,1772,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-700325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-greenland","13":"tag-jd-vance","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","16":"tag-marco-rubio","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","19":"tag-u-s-politics","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115905925100409940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}