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All-Women Senate Delegation Tours Arctic, Calls for NATO Commitment

5/23/2026

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Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lisa Murkowski lead an all-women, bipartisan Senate delegation to Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Norway’s Svalbard to study climate impacts and security.
The tour seeks to reassure allies after President Donald Trump’s aggressive Arctic posture and a Pentagon pause on a joint U.S.–Canada defense board.
Delegates will meet Indigenous communities, inspect cold-weather military sites, and urge defense-bill language that prevents the administration from withdrawing U.S. NATO commitments.

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Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lisa Murkowski lead an all-women, bipartisan Senate delegation to Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Norway’s Svalbard to study climate impacts and security.
The tour seeks to reassure allies after President Donald Trump’s aggressive Arctic posture and a Pentagon pause on a joint U.S.–Canada defense board.
Delegates will meet Indigenous communities, inspect cold-weather military sites, and urge defense-bill language that prevents the administration from withdrawing U.S. NATO commitments.