Tillis, Murkowski say Trump tariffs tied to Greenland will hurt US, divide NATO
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... Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) slammed President Trump's new 10 percent tariffs on Denmark and European allies on Saturday, saying the tariffs will hurt the U.S. and divide NATO if the president takes Greenland by military force.
"This response to our own allies for sending a small number of troops to Greenland for training is bad for America, bad for American businesses, and bad for America's allies," Tillis wrote in a post on the social platform X. "It's great for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, [Chinese President Xi Jinping] and other adversaries who want to see NATO divided."
"The fact that a small handful of advisors' are actively pushing for coercive action to seize territory of an ally is beyond stupid," Tillis continued. "It hurts the legacy of President Trump and undercuts all the work he has done to strengthen the NATO alliance over the years."
Murkowski called the tariffs "unnecessary, punitive, and a profound mistake."
"They will push our core European allies further away while doing nothing to advance U.S. national security," she wrote on X. "We are already seeing the consequences of these measures in real time: our NATO allies are being forced to divert attention and resources to Greenland, a dynamic that plays directly into Putin's hands by threatening the stability of the strongest coalition of democracies the world has ever seen."
Murkowski called on Congress to use its authority over Trump's tariffs so they are "not weaponized in ways that harm our alliances and undermine American leadership."
Tillies and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), both co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate NATO Observer Group, along with Murkowski, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), Sen. Chris ----- (D-Del.), and Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), went to Copenhagen on Friday to meet with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. ...
