NEWS: Republican Congressman Don Bacon Says That If Trump Invades Greenland, There Will Be Enough Republican Support in the House to Impeach Him — And the Question Everyone Is Asking: Why Don’t They Impeach Him Now? If He Invades Greenland, There Will Be Irreparable Damage. Here’s What Republicans Aren’t Telling Us.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told the Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday that Trump invading Greenland would be a last straw for many Republicans, and that enough votes exist in the House to impeach the president if he follows through with threats to seize the arctic nation by force.

“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” Bacon said, acknowledging that Republicans could provide Trump with an excuse to not follow through on his promised invasion.

“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. And he needs to know: the off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off. He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”

Bacon is the lone Republican sponsor on a bill in the House to prevent any funding for military action against NATO nations.

“It’s ridiculous that this has to even be done,” Bacon said of the bill. “But when the president talks about taking Greenland one way or the other way every day this last week or so, and that it’s unacceptable if Greenland refuses to be part of the United States, I felt like I needed to make a statement that Republicans disagree.”

His sentiment was echoed on the Senate side of the Capitol by several Republicans including Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, with Paul telling CBS News, “It won’t happen under my watch. I will do everything to stop any kind of military takeover of Greenland,” and McConnell stating in a floor speech in the Senate that a U.S. invasion of Greenland would result in “Incinerating the hard won trust of loyal allies in exchange for no meaningful change across to the Arctic.”

Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Lisa Murkowsk (R-AK) are reportedly planning to travel to Copenhagen this week to meet with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to assure her that Republicans in Congress would oppose Trump on any invasion of their territory.

“I’m going to remind them that we have co-equal branches of government and I believe that there [is a] sufficient number of members, whether they speak up or not, that are concerned with this,” Tillis said.

Though only a majority of the House is required to impeach the president, removal from office by the Senate requires 67 votes. Yesterday two Republican senators, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Todd Young (R-IN) caved to Trump pressure and killed passage of a war powers act to reign in Trump’s military operations in Venezuela.

Congress has the Constitutional responsibility to assert control over the president’s use of the military. Though Congress has not formally declared war since World War II, nearly every U.S. armed conflict since has come with a president seeking and receiving congressional authorization for military action.