President Donald Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill are working to translate his recent complaints about the Panama Canal into legislative action. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri), an early supporter of Trump’s musings about seizing the strategic waterway,

U.S. investment bank JPMorgan has downgraded its recommendation on Panama's bonds after U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his threat this week to take back the Panama canal.

In recent weeks, when he was President-elect Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should return the Panama Canal to the United States, and he would not rule out using military force to reclaim it. At his presidential Inauguration on Monday Trump doubled down on saying that his new administration was going to take back the canal.