"The winter meeting of the National Governors Association is usually a refuge from the louder dramas of Washington, D.C.: a few days of policy panels, side conversations about housing and health care, and the quiet choreography of federalism. This year, it opened instead with a reminder of how difficult it has become to keep even the rituals of governance free from the pull of spectacle in the second Trump administration."
"Appearing on MS NOW's Morning Joe, Polis described his exclusion as a "badge of honor" and called the White House's handling of the invitations as "utter chaos," likening the episode to "one of those fifth-grade birthday parties" where everyone is left guessing who is in and who is out. "This is really a blow against the governors as a whole when they try to exclude certain governors," Polis said, arguing that the move reduced a collective institution to a stage for political signaling."
The winter meeting of the National Governors Association normally provides a quiet, bipartisan forum for policy panels, housing and health-care conversations, and federal-state collaboration. President Trump moved to exclude Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore from traditional White House events tied to the session, breaking decades of bipartisan custom and prompting protests from Democratic governors. Polis, the NGA’s immediate past chair, called the exclusion a "badge of honor," criticized the invitation handling as chaotic, and said excluding governors undermines the collective institution by turning governance rituals into political signaling. Moore is the only Black governor currently serving.
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