Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined with a Danish lawmaker on Monday to push back against President Trump’s continued insistence that U.S. control of Greenland is necessary for American national

Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her Danish counterpart in an Arctic region group of legislators issued a joint statement Monday rejecting President Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland and urging the U.S. to treat the country as “an ally,

The Alaska Republican and a Danish parliamentarian said the Arctic island is “open for business, but not for sale.”

As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward,” the two lawmakers wrote in the statement.