Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to rail against President Donald Trump’s latest chaotic actions, warning that they could destabilize both the economy and the international order for no good reason.
Tillis, who is retiring at the end of the year, has become increasingly outspoken against the president. Earlier this month, on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Tillis gave a floor speech condemning Trump’s blanket clemency for the 1,500 people involved in the insurrection.
The speech, flagged by Semafor’s Burgess Everett, began with Tillis saying, “This isn’t cranky Thom, this is Thom trying to explain a very serious subject.” Specifically, he took aim at Trump’s escalating threats to invade and annex Greenland away from Denmark.
“The thought of the United States taking a position that we would take Greenland … is absurd,” said Tillis. “Whoever told the president that this is a viable path? It doesn’t make sense.”
Tillis also slammed the Trump administration’s criminal probe into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump’s top aides have accused of lying to Congress about the scope and cost of a $2.5 billion renovation of the central bank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Powell has denied any wrongdoing and accused the administration of mounting a pretextual legal threat to force the Fed to cut interest rates — and many Republicans in Congress are uncomfortable with the probe, a fact Tillis himself noted.
The odds Powell will be convicted of anything, said Tillis, are “virtually impossible” — and “One of the reasons financial markets didn’t react precipitously in a negative way … is because many people stood up in Congress and said ‘this seems to be crossing a line.’”
This last point comes as Tillis has threatened to block any new nominees for the Fed until the criminal probe against Powell is resolved.
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