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Donald Trump’s billionaire backers want to control Greenland to boost their profit margins. Trump himself has made it embarrassingly clear he wants to control Greenland to soothe his wounded pride after not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, like the world’s largest consolation gift. Apparently it needs to be said over and over again: this conquest is their dream, not the American people’s. There is no national interest in Greenland that cannot be served by working with Greenlanders and Denmark instead of treating them as enemies. We do not want a war against our NATO allies, and we do not want to pay billions in taxes to fuel corporate profits and the President’s ego. In between sending pouty, childish messages to world leaders, Donald Trump has threatened a massive tax hike in the form of new tariffs against eight of our closest friends in Europe. As anyone who has been shopping in the last year can tell you, these import taxes will end up being paid by us. Regular Americans are already dealing with artificially high prices from the previous round of Trump taxes, and now he is proposing jacking them even higher for an annexation we didn’t vote for. In addition, we’ve learned that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is coming up with a proposal to purchase Greenland, which published estimates suggest they believe could cost $700 billion. The White House is claiming we can’t afford to make health care or child care affordable, but they are willing to add half the Pentagon’s budget to government spending for Trump’s obsession. Congress needs to act before this goes any further. In addition to passing a war powers resolution and using the appropriations process to block a war on Greenland, you must ensure not a single American taxpayer dollar goes to fund Trump’s Participation Trophy. Please immediately announce you will back a measure to block any of the Greenland tariffs from going into effect, and support an amendment to the appropriations bills banning any taxpayer funds, new or repurposed, from being used to purchase Greenland or influence anyone into backing a takeover.