Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said on Friday Congress has the “tools” to push back if President Donald Trump moves to acquire Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.

The Alaskan senator distanced herself from the president’s foreign policy aims in the Arctic, while standing beside members of the Danish parliament and U.S. lawmakers who made the trip across the Atlantic to meet with foreign leaders from Denmark and its territory.

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