'Not sure': GOP rep. to find out at Mar-a-Lago if funding bill includes Canada takeover
Rep. Kevin Hurn (R-OK) revealed that he was traveling to Mar-a-Lago to determine if the next government funding bill would include provisions for a U.S. takeover of Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.
During a Wednesday interview on CNBC, host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Hurn about what President-elect Donald Trump called "one big, beautiful bill" that would fund the government and mass deportations through a unique process that could prevent Democrats from stopping it.
"Congressman, do you have any realistic expectation that maybe something that would be added to this bill would include either buying Greenland or perhaps buying the Panama Canal or, I don't know about buying Canada, maybe merging with Canada?" the CNBC host asked.
"Well, I don't — not sure yet," Hurn admitted. "We're all going down to Mar-a-Lago over the next three or four days to share different opinions, thoughts on some of the things that have been discussed."
"I want to look at this and see what the opportunities are as recently in Panama," he continued. "The [president-elect] knows this, and he wants to make sure that we don't get encircled, whether it be Greenland or Canada or the Panama Canal, and make sure that we have national security."
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"So one of the things we have the most important role to do in Congress is to protect this great nation."
Sorkin pointed out that Canadian officials had responded to Trump's threats by floating the idea of purchasing Alaska and Minnesota.
"Well good luck on Canada buying anything out of America," Hurn replied. "You know President Trump will push as we all know he's a businessman."
"He will set the boundaries and have everybody think twice before they do something that might be radical as that was suggested by the folks in Canada," he added.