President Donald Trump doubled down on his insistence that the U.S. annexes Greenland, arguing that any other alternative is simply “unacceptable.” Repeating his stance that the annexation of the territory is needed for “national security” purposes,

Pennsylvania's two sitting senators, Republican Dave McCormick and Democrat John Fetterman, told CBS News they do not support a U.S. military takeover of Greenland.

Trump has argued that the U.S. acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, is critical for U.S. security given the threats posed by Russia and China. The White House has declined to take off the table the option of using the military to acquire Greenland.

Officials from Greenland and Denmark emerged from a high-stakes meeting to hit out at the president’s “unacceptable” demands.

The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.

A White House meeting on Wednesday, when Danish and Greenlandic officials met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, yielded little progress. Trump has not ruled out military intervention in Greenland, which Denmark said would spell the end of NATO, whose members will hold exercises without U.S. involvement.

New polls show 86% of Americans oppose military action to take Greenland as Trump intensifies push for U.S. control of the strategic Arctic territory.

Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.