President Donald Trump’s historic deal with Greenland won quick praise from Rep. Mark Alford (R., Mo.), who introduced a resolution, obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, commending Trump for establishing permanent United States sovereignty in Greenland.
Alford, who noted that Trump’s deal with Greenland will also provide America with control over critical military installations in Greenland, strengthen America’s Arctic security, and counter malign Russian and Chinese influence in the region, said that Trump “once again displayed the Art of the Deal on the world stage” in securing the commitments.
“The historic Greenland accord will deliver a new era of global security in the Arctic,” Alford said. “By securing this deal to deter Russian and Chinese aggression through diplomacy, rather than force, this administration is showing America First does not mean America alone. I’m proud to introduce this resolution to recognize the President’s steadfast leadership and this extraordinary accomplishment.”
In Congress, Alford is one of the strongest supporters of the foreign policy vision that Trump and his cabinet, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have spent over a year enacting. As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Alford defended the Trump administration’s cuts to agencies like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and he led a congressional resolution, reported first by the Reporter, praising the administration’s historic work to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities in Operation Midnight Hammer.
Alford represents Whiteman Air Force Base, the home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber, the Air Force’s 509th Bomb Wing, and the Air National Guard’s 131st Bomb Wing; these aircraft played a central role in Midnight Hammer. Following his track record on Iran, Alford has turned his attention to America’s hemisphere, where both Russia and China are moving to expand their respective footprints in the High North region; Alford’s resolution acknowledges that “Greenland occupies one of the most strategically significant geographic positions in the world.”
Despite that significance, Alford noted that Trump’s predecessors, like President Joe Biden, “failed to adequately address the growing security risks posed by foreign adversaries operating in and around Greenland, leaving the United States and its allies vulnerable to emerging threats in the Arctic domain.” Because of Trump, Alford’s resolution notes, “the United States reached a long-term strategic framework with Denmark, Greenland, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies that respects existing political arrangements while guaranteeing exclusive United States military control over critical installations necessary for national and allied defense.”
Because of Trump’s move, which the resolution calls “one of the most significant advancements in United States Arctic and hemispheric defense policy in modern history,” Alford wants Congress to “honor[] President Donald J. Trump for his historic leadership in securing permanent United States sovereignty and control over critical military bases and defense installations in Greenland.”
House Republicans have repeatedly taken to the pages of the Reporter to make the case for an increased American presence in Greenland. Alford’s colleague, Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R., Fla.), wrote an op-ed that Trump subsequently shared, arguing for the importance of Trump’s Greenland “gambit.”
