Washington (AP) President Donald Trump’s real-time confrontation with Maine’s governor about transgender athletes caught the puzzle that many democratic governors are confronted in the second term of the republican.
Governor Janet Mills’ vow that she would see Trump in court because of his threat of keeping money back to the state, if his executive order did not meet, Democrats delighted who wanted stricter setbacks. But the dust, which played on Friday when Trump organized governors in the White House, ticked a president that was known,
Hours after the delayed, the Federal Department of Education announced that the Maine Ministry of Education will initiate a study by the admission of trans -athletes. Trump doesn’t want you to play in girls and women’s sports. The law of Maine prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
“Every time such a public interaction takes place, she comes from a person founded on her values,” said Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in an interview on Sunday. “I love Janet Mills and I guess you to get up. I also know that there is always a cost that goes hand in hand with it. “
The Democrats, which lead the most populous states of the nation, were in Washington to meet a meeting of the National Governor Association, where they tried to augment a balance between the needs of their states and their feelings towards Trump.
Whitmer, known for the fact that he came together with Trump during his first term about the Federal Covid-19 reaction, fought vigorously against him on behalf of the democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on behalf of the democratic candidate. Whitmer said she was sitting next to Trump at a White House dinner on Saturday evening.
“I was the only democrat at the table. I was a little surprised. I think everyone in the room was a little surprised to be honest, ”she said. “But I took the opportunity to talk a little about tariffs.”
Michigan and other states could significantly influence some of the presidents’ early proposals. For example, Michigan expects that almost 42% of its budget come from federal funds and rely on the trade with Canada, which is now exposed to potential trump-based trade sentences.
A federal judge is considering blocking the management of freezing trillion dollars of grants and loans, a step that could strongly influence the states. At the same time, Trump’s more significant ally Elon Musk is urging the federal government with probably nationwide waves. About 80% of the approximately 2 million people in federal employees live outside the Metro Washington, which have been distributed across the country.
“I am very concerned that people will make decisions without being the effects of the American public,” said Whitmer. Muschus, she said, was “dangerous”.
State leaders hit a conciliatory tone at discussion stories and news conferences at the meetings.
“We always hope that people cannot agree in a way that increases the discourse and tries to come to a common solution,” said Jared Polis from Colorado, chairman of the association, when asked about the exchange of Trump-Mills . “I don’t think disagreement was necessarily a model of it,” he said.
Governor Kathy Hochul, DN.Y., met Trump for more than an hour on Friday afternoon to discuss the congestion of Manhattan. Trump ordered the program, an significant Hochul priority, and explained in a social media contribution: “Long live the king!”
When asked about the meeting, Hochul told CBS ‘”face of the nation” that it was “controversial” and that the New Yorkers “need to know that I am ready to take the fight wherever I have to.”
“We won’t sit over and be attacked by our rights,” she said. “We will work with you if there are similarities, without a doubt, we are building great projects and infrastructure. There are areas in which we work with you on immigration and bring the violent criminals off our streets. We do not deny this, but do not believe that they can just come in and to shoot us around and no reaction from governors. “
Whitmer said she also had the chance to talk to Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“I have to put the interests of the people with my own interest before I am my interest in partisans. I have a job to do, ”said Whitmer, looking at a top potential candidate for the democratic nomination of 2028 for the president. “Even if it is uncomfortable, even if, as you know, everything you would accept on a personal level is the second for my job as a governor.”
Hundreds of miles from Washington, another 2028 candidate took a different direction.
The Illinois Governor JB Pritzker compared the Trump administration in his speech of the state on Wednesday with the NS movement and criticized the members of his own party and explained: “When you get along, it does not work.
Pritzker’s answer found some significant voters.
“We have not chosen Democrats to become employees with our oppressors,” said Lori Goldman, founder of “Fems for Dems”, a group based in Michigan who focuses on the turnout.
“We are more than angry and organize ourselves against Democrats that sold out to us,” she said.
