Congressional Greenland Caucus

• Caucus Background: In March of 2025, I was proud to be the founding chairman of the Congressional Greenland Caucus, with Rep. Harriet Hageman as co-chair. This Congressional Member Organization was founded with the intent to inform members regarding important issues relating to the island. Given the strategic nature of the island, active military sites, vast amounts of natural resources and proximity to the United States, it has become a recent point of interest for the administration as well as Congress.

• President Trump began the conversation on possible accession during his first term and now that he has returned to the White House has identified the island as being a key national security priority once again. The recent visit to the island by Vice President J.D. Vance and Senator Mike Lee has further deepened both legislative and executive interest in the future of the island.

• The island is an important hub of arctic security. During the Cold War, the U.S. ran Thule Air Force Base, which at one point housed over 10,000 personnel, monitoring the Arctic, lest Russian bombers fly over the North Pole to attack the U.S. The base has largely been mothballed but still exists as (newly renamed under the Biden Administration) Pituffik Space Force Base. The U.S. is already inextricably linked to the island of Greenland in both the past and now the future of national security policy. Adequate presence in the Arctic is key to the future of our national security.

• Aside from the Arctic security issues, the island also has the potential to be a key source of near shore critical minerals. Greenland is reported to be home to a quarter of the globe’s undiscovered hydrocarbon resources and around a tenth of the world’s coal and critical materials, including iron, zinc, and even uranium. U.S. partnership and investment has the potential to unlock important resources.

• While the Greenland Caucus represents no individual policy viewpoint on the future of U.S. Greenland relations, it exists to facilitate and inform the discussion by Congress and to work constructively with the executive about what is doubtless a critical national security issue.
  
  

Members: Rep. Davidson (Chair), Rep. Harriet Hageman (Co-Chair), Senator Schmitt, Rep. Steube, Rep. Fleischmann, Rep. Barry Moore, Rep. Gill, Rep. Ogles, Rep. Flood, Rep. Rulli, Rep. Van Drew