Scoop: Democrat introduces bill to shut down Trump's Greenland ambitions

• Trump has openly mused in recent weeks about the possibility of acquiring Greenland, which both Danish and Greenlandic officials have insisted is not for sale.
• Both bills are extreme long-shots. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but many of them have also have pushed back against Trump's suggestion that the U.S. may try to take Greenland militarily.

Driving the news: Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) is introducing the "Greenland Sovereignty Protection Act," a three-page bill that would block federal funds from being used to finance Trump's Greenland ambitions.

• The bill prohibits funds from being used to facilitate "the invasion, annexation, purchase, or other form of acquisition of Greenland" by the U.S. government.
• It would also prevent funding for a surge of U.S. troops to the island or a public influence campaigns aimed at swaying the Greenlandic people to support a U.S. takeover.

State of play: After the U.S. conducted a military operation in Venezuela earlier this month that resulted in the extradition of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Trump began floating more international incursions.

• He has suggested the U.S. may intervene military further in Venezuela and in Greenland, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba.
• Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have pushed back strongly against most of those suggestions, with many noting that Greenland, as a Danish territory, is protected by Article 5 of the NATO charter.